Hi,
I'd appreciate any help with this problem. I successfully used EasyBCD to set up a dual boot system with Vista Home Premium and XP Home Edition installed in the same drive. This worked fine, but the Vista partition was still visible from XP.
After some reading, I decided to use NeoGrub to boot into XP so that I could be able to hide the Vista partition from XP. I followed the instructions posted on this website at How-To: Hide Vista Partition from XP with NeoGrub! The NeoSmart Files to hide the Vista partition,=.
Windows Boot Manager lists the original option for booting into Vista (which I haven't changed ever since I installed EasyBCD) and the NeoGrub option to boot XP. I can successfully boot XP, but I haven't been able to boot Vista.
Vista's automatic repair utility didn't fix this problem either. After booting with the Windows Vista cd and running diskpart, I can see that the Vista partition remains hidden and no drive letter has been assigned to it. Obviously, I cannot edit NeoGrub's menu.lst file to add an option to unhide the Vista partition since the file is located in this partition.
Can anybody help me fix Vista's boot? Is my only option to manually rebuild bootloader? I can follow the instructions posted on this website to that effect, but I don't want to make things worse without knowing it.
Thanks a lot for any help and sorry for the huge post!
I'd appreciate any help with this problem. I successfully used EasyBCD to set up a dual boot system with Vista Home Premium and XP Home Edition installed in the same drive. This worked fine, but the Vista partition was still visible from XP.
After some reading, I decided to use NeoGrub to boot into XP so that I could be able to hide the Vista partition from XP. I followed the instructions posted on this website at How-To: Hide Vista Partition from XP with NeoGrub! The NeoSmart Files to hide the Vista partition,=.
Windows Boot Manager lists the original option for booting into Vista (which I haven't changed ever since I installed EasyBCD) and the NeoGrub option to boot XP. I can successfully boot XP, but I haven't been able to boot Vista.
Vista's automatic repair utility didn't fix this problem either. After booting with the Windows Vista cd and running diskpart, I can see that the Vista partition remains hidden and no drive letter has been assigned to it. Obviously, I cannot edit NeoGrub's menu.lst file to add an option to unhide the Vista partition since the file is located in this partition.
Can anybody help me fix Vista's boot? Is my only option to manually rebuild bootloader? I can follow the instructions posted on this website to that effect, but I don't want to make things worse without knowing it.
Thanks a lot for any help and sorry for the huge post!