I bought a computer with Vista pre-installed, found Vista was pretty but flaky, so I decided to dual-boot with XP. I backed up/ghosted the Vista installation, reformatted the hard drive with the XP install disk, then installed XP in one partition, and restored Vista to the other partition.
Now, however, although I tried the tricks suggested in
How to: Install the Vista Bootloader on Windows XP
I just can't get the Vista bootloader to start. I come automatically into XP; I can see the Vista partition & get to my files.
When I start EasyBCD, I get the message "Unfortunately, EasyBCD could not automatically detect the drive letter of your boot device...."
I tried both drive letter options. When I get into EasyBCD, I go to the Manage Bootloader section and select "Reinstall Vista Bootloader"/"Write MBR". I've gone to the Diagnostics Center and selected both "Recreate missing/deleted boot files" & "Reset BCD storage" and clicked "Rescue my System!" I've done these things over and over again on countless reboots.
So I'm reasonably sure the Vista bootloader is on my machine (in Drive F: with my vista installation, which is, though the first partition). Now, can I use EasyBCD to get the Vista bootloader to be called, instead of the XP bootloader? I don't have the original Vista install DVD because I was supposed to make them from the rescue partition, which I hosed when I reformatted the hard drive.
Thanks for any help.
Paul
Now, however, although I tried the tricks suggested in
How to: Install the Vista Bootloader on Windows XP
I just can't get the Vista bootloader to start. I come automatically into XP; I can see the Vista partition & get to my files.
When I start EasyBCD, I get the message "Unfortunately, EasyBCD could not automatically detect the drive letter of your boot device...."
I tried both drive letter options. When I get into EasyBCD, I go to the Manage Bootloader section and select "Reinstall Vista Bootloader"/"Write MBR". I've gone to the Diagnostics Center and selected both "Recreate missing/deleted boot files" & "Reset BCD storage" and clicked "Rescue my System!" I've done these things over and over again on countless reboots.
So I'm reasonably sure the Vista bootloader is on my machine (in Drive F: with my vista installation, which is, though the first partition). Now, can I use EasyBCD to get the Vista bootloader to be called, instead of the XP bootloader? I don't have the original Vista install DVD because I was supposed to make them from the rescue partition, which I hosed when I reformatted the hard drive.
Thanks for any help.
Paul
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