Hello,
I am a new user and I am hoping this forum will help. Here's my issue:
I already had XP installed on my system on my original 250gig SATA hard drive. I decided I wanted Vista and installed a second 80gig SATA drive into my system and installed Vista onto that hard drive. After re-booting, I had my dual boot screen ask me which OS I wanted. It worked perfectly. Then...I decided to add some more RAM to my system, and in-advertantly, while in the case, I accidentaly knocked a cable loose to the 250gig hard drive. It was not getting power when I booted it and when I booted I get a message says OS not found. I panic, not realizing I knocked the power loose and I run the Vista repair thingy on the install disk and then I boot to Vista. It was when I got into the OS that I realized that I could not see the 250 gig HD at all. I power down, open up and realize I had knocked the power loose and replace it. Only now problem is that after I reboot the second time I have no dual boot option anymore. I can still see all of my XP files and directories in my Vista Explorer, but I can't boot to XP. I thought about shutting down and trying to boot to the orginal XP HD only, but I wonder if there is an easier way?
Thanks in advance for help! JP :huh:
I am a new user and I am hoping this forum will help. Here's my issue:
I already had XP installed on my system on my original 250gig SATA hard drive. I decided I wanted Vista and installed a second 80gig SATA drive into my system and installed Vista onto that hard drive. After re-booting, I had my dual boot screen ask me which OS I wanted. It worked perfectly. Then...I decided to add some more RAM to my system, and in-advertantly, while in the case, I accidentaly knocked a cable loose to the 250gig hard drive. It was not getting power when I booted it and when I booted I get a message says OS not found. I panic, not realizing I knocked the power loose and I run the Vista repair thingy on the install disk and then I boot to Vista. It was when I got into the OS that I realized that I could not see the 250 gig HD at all. I power down, open up and realize I had knocked the power loose and replace it. Only now problem is that after I reboot the second time I have no dual boot option anymore. I can still see all of my XP files and directories in my Vista Explorer, but I can't boot to XP. I thought about shutting down and trying to boot to the orginal XP HD only, but I wonder if there is an easier way?
Thanks in advance for help! JP :huh: