ferozedude
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Hi everyone
Urgently need your help with this situation as I am encountering this for the first time.
I have an 250Gb IDE and 1TB SATA drives. I had Windows XP Professional installed on partition 1 of the IDE (ie. C drive) and recently installed Vista on the SATA drive. All was working fine I formatted the C drive as the xp installation got affected by viruses etc. So I reinstalled Windows XP on C drive (it didnt complete reinstall), but now it fails to detect the boot.ini even though it exists in C drive. I cant load any of the operating systems. And I'd like to continue using the IDE with XP and Vista on the SATA.
1. I have tried the usual fixboot, fixmbr and bootcfg from the Recovery Console on the XP disk - no success. boot.ini looks correct as well.
2. I have tried Repair Your Computer from the Vista installation disk - no success.
Not sure what is wrong and why it isnt detecting the boot.ini. I am happy to make the SATA the active disk and load Vista/XP from the SATA or IDE, whichever is easier really.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Urgently need your help with this situation as I am encountering this for the first time.
I have an 250Gb IDE and 1TB SATA drives. I had Windows XP Professional installed on partition 1 of the IDE (ie. C drive) and recently installed Vista on the SATA drive. All was working fine I formatted the C drive as the xp installation got affected by viruses etc. So I reinstalled Windows XP on C drive (it didnt complete reinstall), but now it fails to detect the boot.ini even though it exists in C drive. I cant load any of the operating systems. And I'd like to continue using the IDE with XP and Vista on the SATA.
1. I have tried the usual fixboot, fixmbr and bootcfg from the Recovery Console on the XP disk - no success. boot.ini looks correct as well.
2. I have tried Repair Your Computer from the Vista installation disk - no success.
Not sure what is wrong and why it isnt detecting the boot.ini. I am happy to make the SATA the active disk and load Vista/XP from the SATA or IDE, whichever is easier really.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.