I recently purchased a Sony Vaio laptop computer VGN-FZ190 which I was quite happy with once I managed to uninstall large chunks of Sony pre-installed software.
For work I needed to install a dual-boot with XP. I found the posting on the internet from apcmag.com by James Bannan. Everything worked as it should until I used EasyBCD. When I tried to add an entry for Windows XP I did not have the option to select the drive - is was greyed out. Other posts suggested that this was okay.
When I booted my Vista partition - it worked fine.
When I booted my XP entry - nothing happened it eventually came back to the original window asking me to choose one of the two systems.
After some reading of various post I thought I would use NeoGrub and hide partitions hd0,1 and hd0,2. I only have one drive and the Sony Vaio has a recovery partition at partition position one. Partition two - Vista and partition three- the partition I created that contains XP.
Once I did the above I lost all operating systems. I used my Mac computer to find and build a Super Grub CDRom boot disk. I used this disk to unhide partitions 1 and 2.
Now my computer boots up into Vista in a form of recovery mode. My C: drive is now my smaller former G: drive where XP is installed, and my G: drive is now my larger drive where Vista is installed.
As a last measure after reading some of the posts here I edited the menu.lst file (now on the G: drive) so it says unhide (hdX, Y) instead of hide but no change.
Is there some way to just get back to single boot sytem with Vista as it was? I'm rather tired and embarrassed at the mess I've created. Any help would be most forthcoming.
Lost99
For work I needed to install a dual-boot with XP. I found the posting on the internet from apcmag.com by James Bannan. Everything worked as it should until I used EasyBCD. When I tried to add an entry for Windows XP I did not have the option to select the drive - is was greyed out. Other posts suggested that this was okay.
When I booted my Vista partition - it worked fine.
When I booted my XP entry - nothing happened it eventually came back to the original window asking me to choose one of the two systems.
After some reading of various post I thought I would use NeoGrub and hide partitions hd0,1 and hd0,2. I only have one drive and the Sony Vaio has a recovery partition at partition position one. Partition two - Vista and partition three- the partition I created that contains XP.
Once I did the above I lost all operating systems. I used my Mac computer to find and build a Super Grub CDRom boot disk. I used this disk to unhide partitions 1 and 2.
Now my computer boots up into Vista in a form of recovery mode. My C: drive is now my smaller former G: drive where XP is installed, and my G: drive is now my larger drive where Vista is installed.
As a last measure after reading some of the posts here I edited the menu.lst file (now on the G: drive) so it says unhide (hdX, Y) instead of hide but no change.
Is there some way to just get back to single boot sytem with Vista as it was? I'm rather tired and embarrassed at the mess I've created. Any help would be most forthcoming.
Lost99