Failure to boot from hard drive

[jason_in98]

I'll try to summarize the events leading up to my problem as best I
can.

I have two hard drives. I tried installing Windows Vista Business on
the first one to use in a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP
which was on the second hard drive. Well, the Vista installation
worked fine, but when I went to boot into XP, I found Vista's boot
loader hadn't recognized Windows XP. Clearly frustrated, I tried
several different things until I finally decided to format the first
hard drive. It was horrible I lost my entire data from the Hard drive.
Vista made my data vanish. I hate it. I tried using repair tool and
many recovery software, but it did not work. Please help me out.

 

[CBFalconer]

I'll try to summarize the events leading up to my problem as best I
can.

I have two hard drives. I tried installing Windows Vista Business on
the first one to use in a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP
which was on the second hard drive. Well, the Vista installation
worked fine, but when I went to boot into XP, I found Vista's boot
loader hadn't recognized Windows XP. Clearly frustrated, I tried
several different things until I finally decided to format the first
hard drive. It was horrible I lost my entire data from the Hard drive.
Vista made my data vanish. I hate it. I tried using repair tool and
many recovery software, but it did not work. Please help me out.

If you had paid attention to my sig. earlier you wouldn't have the
problem.

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