Hi all,
Here's my little story, hope you will enjoy reading and give me some advice.
First, specs - HP E4500 dual core, 2G RAM, 320HDD SATA. It came with Vista Home pre-installed. I imaged my old sys with Acronis True Image with Universal restore and got 3 partitions - XP pro SP2 MCE, another version of XP pro and a partition for data storage.
Leter I installed Vista Enterprize over the second XP install. And so it worked for about 6 months with no major problems.
Untill...I got, what I suspect a boot virus.
PC would freeze, AVG would tell me that my MBR is damaged, doing chkdsk brought "Autocheck is not available on RAW drives".
I tried to use Xp's install disk to fixmbr, but I couldn't boot it, now I know that it's because of Sata drivers.
So, I started poking around.
Tried Partition Doctor. No results. Tried TestDisk. Well, that made a difference, but not the one I wanted - neither of the OS's would boot, all I got was Vista boot loader, choosing "Earlier Version of Windows" or Vista would give me ntldr and winlogon is missing errors.
Br-r-r-r!
I searched more and came across EasyBCD. Since I couldn't boot into it, I used tutorials on how to fix the boot from here - Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki
I went all the way through step 3 and 4 - Nuclear Holocaust :-|, and now I can boot Vista only.
I don't see the bootloader anymore, nor the option to boot XP
And when Vista boot's I get a few errors about dll's (will post them soon). And it's pretty much unusable - desktop is not functioning properly and I don't see most of the icons, settings and prog's.
This is the current state of affairs.
I would like to get XP and Vista dualboot again!
Is this possible???
Thank you if you can shed some light on my ignorance.
Here's my little story, hope you will enjoy reading and give me some advice.
First, specs - HP E4500 dual core, 2G RAM, 320HDD SATA. It came with Vista Home pre-installed. I imaged my old sys with Acronis True Image with Universal restore and got 3 partitions - XP pro SP2 MCE, another version of XP pro and a partition for data storage.
Leter I installed Vista Enterprize over the second XP install. And so it worked for about 6 months with no major problems.
Untill...I got, what I suspect a boot virus.
PC would freeze, AVG would tell me that my MBR is damaged, doing chkdsk brought "Autocheck is not available on RAW drives".
I tried to use Xp's install disk to fixmbr, but I couldn't boot it, now I know that it's because of Sata drivers.
So, I started poking around.
Tried Partition Doctor. No results. Tried TestDisk. Well, that made a difference, but not the one I wanted - neither of the OS's would boot, all I got was Vista boot loader, choosing "Earlier Version of Windows" or Vista would give me ntldr and winlogon is missing errors.
Br-r-r-r!
I searched more and came across EasyBCD. Since I couldn't boot into it, I used tutorials on how to fix the boot from here - Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki
I went all the way through step 3 and 4 - Nuclear Holocaust :-|, and now I can boot Vista only.
I don't see the bootloader anymore, nor the option to boot XP
And when Vista boot's I get a few errors about dll's (will post them soon). And it's pretty much unusable - desktop is not functioning properly and I don't see most of the icons, settings and prog's.
This is the current state of affairs.
I would like to get XP and Vista dualboot again!
Is this possible???
Thank you if you can shed some light on my ignorance.