dual boot will not load xp

[twohands]

I have one physical drive, Vista on 2nd partition (C XP on 1st partition (D. EasyBCD is setup for these and both show in the configuration. At boot, both show as choices. Vista works fine. Choosing XP causes a reboot back to the same choice screen. I can boot to XP by making the XP partition active, in which case no
Vista option is available, so my XP installation is fine. Make the Vista partition active and I get the boot manager screen.
I had this working 2 days ago, when I did a reinstall of Vista. I suspect the problem is the XP boot.ini. I have tried this in many forms, however, and none work. Adding a boot.ini in the Vista partition gets me a second boot screen, which fails as described above. Can someone with a working configuration like this just send along their settings, especially the boot.ini? Thanks.

 

[mqudsi]

Hi twohands,

I'm afraid that won't work: every computer has its own different BCD and boot.ini depending on the partition order, operating system install order, and many more settings.

What you need to do:
In EasyBCD (from Vista) change the drive letter for the XP entry to the letter of the XP drive as Vista sees it.

Test.

If it doesn't work:
Open XP's boot.ini, and change the disk(x) parameter to disk(y) where `y` is equal to `x` plus one.