crsnwd4life20
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Hi all,
Im trying to set up a dual boot with xp and vista. Both OS’s are installed on separate drives. The problem I am having is getting both OS's boot files installed at the same time. Initially after I installed Vista (with xp already installed) xp would not boot when i disabled booting on the vista drive through bios. I ran fixboot off the xp disc and xp would auto boot. Disabled xp drive boot in bios and vista wont boot due to BCD files missing or corrupted. In Xp I went to EasyBCD and reset BCD storage and vista auto boots, now leaving xp with a similar ntdlr error. I run fixboot again and xp auto boots, again.I have 2 entries in Easy BCD (running from Xp) for xp and vista which correspond to the correct drives, as seen in XP. It seems to me that EasyBCD automatically installs the vista bootloader on the xp drive and possibly overwrites the xp boot…is this what its doing? If I restore backed up bootloader settings vista auto boots and xp needs another fixboot. Basically, If xp boots Vista wont and vice versa. Since xp was installed first, does that make the xp drive the boot drive for vista? I have no more ideas as everything I try ends up recycling me through fixboot for xp and then messing with easybcd to boot vista. There is never a dual boot screen. What should I do?
Im trying to set up a dual boot with xp and vista. Both OS’s are installed on separate drives. The problem I am having is getting both OS's boot files installed at the same time. Initially after I installed Vista (with xp already installed) xp would not boot when i disabled booting on the vista drive through bios. I ran fixboot off the xp disc and xp would auto boot. Disabled xp drive boot in bios and vista wont boot due to BCD files missing or corrupted. In Xp I went to EasyBCD and reset BCD storage and vista auto boots, now leaving xp with a similar ntdlr error. I run fixboot again and xp auto boots, again.I have 2 entries in Easy BCD (running from Xp) for xp and vista which correspond to the correct drives, as seen in XP. It seems to me that EasyBCD automatically installs the vista bootloader on the xp drive and possibly overwrites the xp boot…is this what its doing? If I restore backed up bootloader settings vista auto boots and xp needs another fixboot. Basically, If xp boots Vista wont and vice versa. Since xp was installed first, does that make the xp drive the boot drive for vista? I have no more ideas as everything I try ends up recycling me through fixboot for xp and then messing with easybcd to boot vista. There is never a dual boot screen. What should I do?