Hi all... I need some help to set up my dual boot system.
I originally had only Vista and then added XP to another partition on same disk.
After installing XP, the system will boot only to XP. So I follow the instructions to recover Vista bootloader from XP using Easy BCD. I wrote the MBR to install Vista Downloader, but forgot to add a new entry to have both OS in the bootloader menu...
So after rebooting it goes to Vista directly. As a result I cannot boot to XP anymore, even when its there, lying in another partition.
So I installed EasyBCD again, but this time on my Vista OS. And tried to add another XP entry to the boot options, but when I choose to add it says that cannot find any XP sytem on the speficied disk (which was in automatic mode). I tried each disk at a time, and always get same error.
So my question is how can I add the boot to XP option to my Vista bootloader?
Certainly I dont want to reinstall XP again...I guess renistallig XP will work (assuming I will not forget again to add the XP entry, when botting from XP), but I hope there s another faster/simpler solution.
Some more info:
Vista is on partition 1
Original Vista recovery is partition 2
XP is on partition 3
There is no boot.ini in my XP partition root folder.
The ARC path in the boot.ini file on my Vista partition is this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
Best regards
I originally had only Vista and then added XP to another partition on same disk.
After installing XP, the system will boot only to XP. So I follow the instructions to recover Vista bootloader from XP using Easy BCD. I wrote the MBR to install Vista Downloader, but forgot to add a new entry to have both OS in the bootloader menu...
So after rebooting it goes to Vista directly. As a result I cannot boot to XP anymore, even when its there, lying in another partition.
So I installed EasyBCD again, but this time on my Vista OS. And tried to add another XP entry to the boot options, but when I choose to add it says that cannot find any XP sytem on the speficied disk (which was in automatic mode). I tried each disk at a time, and always get same error.
So my question is how can I add the boot to XP option to my Vista bootloader?
Certainly I dont want to reinstall XP again...I guess renistallig XP will work (assuming I will not forget again to add the XP entry, when botting from XP), but I hope there s another faster/simpler solution.
Some more info:
Vista is on partition 1
Original Vista recovery is partition 2
XP is on partition 3
There is no boot.ini in my XP partition root folder.
The ARC path in the boot.ini file on my Vista partition is this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
Best regards
