Win Vista screwed up my XP

[John Doe]

I already had xp on my hd (2 sata drives)
I left about 200GB on a separate partition designated for vista. Installed vista over xp, now I get no choice screen. Can't log in to xp anymore. I read in Games for Windows mag that's all I have to do. Install xp, install vista, and dual boot will take care of itself. I checked in vista settings: start>computer>properties> >advanced system settings> start up & recovery>settings> under default operating system there is only vista, no xp.
When I check D: drive (xp partition) I see bootsect.bak when checked with notepad, among gibberish I see:
A disk read error occurred
NTLDR is missing
NTLDR is compressed
Can't find any pages with "what if" scenarios if anything goes wrong then what? Every web page so far only assumes everything will go just fine.



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[dean-dean]

Your Vista DVD has a "Repair your computer" option. You have to boot to
the DVD to use it. See:

How to automatically repair Windows Vista using Startup Repair
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html

Try the "Repair your computer" > "System Recovery Options" > "Startup
Repair" option at least three or four times, if it doesn't succeed. From
experience, sometimes once is not enough.

Then download VistaBootPRO, which will help you edit your Bootscreen, etc.

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

The stuff your seeing in bootsect.bak are just potential warnings, etc. you
might see if certain conditions are true when you boot. I wouldn't worry
about that, it's just part of the program. You'll see the text on your
screen if it's relevant.

 

[peter]

installed vista over xp,
your words.......you have installed Vista OVER XP............no more XP
...no dual boot ..just Vista.............nothing else..nada.
peter

 

[John Barnes]

A very confused post to say the least. Separate partition for Vista and
then installs over XP?