Hi, I hope this is not answered already but I could not find any info related to my setup.
1. Toshiba laptop A210 with Vista installed
2. Partitions: c: - Vista
D: - XP
E: - Data (for backup.
I did the shrink job then installed XP OK which booted but lacked drivers then did the repair of Vista bootloader.
Somehow the ntldr, boot.ini ntdetect.com got damaged and I replaced them onto the root level of C: (as seen by Vista).
diskpart shows:
Part
1 OEM 1500mb
2 PRI 75GB (Vista)
3 PRI 49GB (Data)
0 EXtended 23GB (XP)
4 Logical 23GB (XP?)
I reckon the count goes 1 & 2 for the primarys and 3 for the extended which looks right for boot.ini?
The boot.ini generated from an XP repair gives:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS=""
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
This little lot offers two screen at boot up, one with Vista, XP then another with XP
Does anyone know where did this all go wrong please?
Thanks!
Ian
1. Toshiba laptop A210 with Vista installed
2. Partitions: c: - Vista
D: - XP
E: - Data (for backup.
I did the shrink job then installed XP OK which booted but lacked drivers then did the repair of Vista bootloader.
Somehow the ntldr, boot.ini ntdetect.com got damaged and I replaced them onto the root level of C: (as seen by Vista).
diskpart shows:
Part
1 OEM 1500mb
2 PRI 75GB (Vista)
3 PRI 49GB (Data)
0 EXtended 23GB (XP)
4 Logical 23GB (XP?)
I reckon the count goes 1 & 2 for the primarys and 3 for the extended which looks right for boot.ini?
The boot.ini generated from an XP repair gives:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS=""
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
This little lot offers two screen at boot up, one with Vista, XP then another with XP
Does anyone know where did this all go wrong please?
Thanks!
Ian