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March 6th, 2008, 05:14 AM
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i lost my dual boot option pls help
hi all . i having a problem with dual-boot. i had xp and vista installed but i just reinstalled xp again and i cant get vista to work when i start my pc. there used to be a option to choose xp or vista . its gone ... regards michael  
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March 6th, 2008, 05:18 AM
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Hello Michael welcome to NST! Tha anser to your question is simple. You lost your Vista boot loader or the BCD to be exact. It is easy to recover. Just use the VIsta DVD. You can also look to our Wiki for help as well. http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBC...sta+Bootloader That should at least give you the option to get Vista back. Then you will have to use EasyBCD to add XP back as i am sure the info is old and needs to be redone. Or maybe not. bu tfor that info check our wiki as well. http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Windows+XP All the information is there that you need to get working again.
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March 6th, 2008, 05:59 AM
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hi again. i just done type 2 and am upto where go to the Add/Remove entries page and add whatever operating system. i chose windows nt/2k/xp/2k3 or windows vista/longhorn ? then restart pc. thanks for your help makaveli213
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March 6th, 2008, 06:27 AM
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Well your Vista entry should be back. So you would have to add Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 entry to add XP back. 
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March 6th, 2008, 11:06 AM
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hi. i just format and installed vista again and that fixed the problem. thanks for your help anyway. regards michael
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March 6th, 2008, 11:23 AM
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For future reference Michael, If you install Vista after XP, Vista knows about XP so it will dual boot automatically, and add XP to Vista's boot loader. If you install XP after Vista, XP doesn't know about Vista (it hadn't been written when the XP bootloader was coded) so it puts XP's bootloader in place on top of Vista's, and you can't see Vista But it is still there and OK. You just need to boot the Vista DVD again and select "repair" and Vista will reinstate its bootloader as if you'd installed it after XP, with a full dual-boot capability. You didn't need a full reinstall of Vista, just a repair of the boot loader, which is an automatic feature.
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March 6th, 2008, 04:33 PM
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Terry i gave that info in the 2nd post bud.
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March 6th, 2008, 06:17 PM
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Yea - but he obviously didn't read the wiki did he !
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March 6th, 2008, 10:42 PM
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hello. i did Vista DVD and i select repair and it did fixed vista and loaded Vista ok but no option to choose xp only loaded vista now lol.
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March 6th, 2008, 11:23 PM
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No worries: just use EasyBCD to add a normal XP entry now.
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March 7th, 2008, 03:16 AM
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September 28th, 2009, 09:31 PM
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September 29th, 2009, 12:46 AM
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