Mausebaer
Distinguished Member
Hello!
Here I'm back ...
I have Vista Business on the first partition (C
and installed WinXP on a second partition (D
with help of EASYBCD.
I'm using the Dual Boot Option.
Everything went and works very well.
But now I'm facing a problem...
After installation I found that XP named all harddisks and partitions new, different to those under Vista.
That means that WinXP- OS is working now on "K:".... (which is "D:" under Vista)
On C: I found the Vista System unprotected from XP. That caused some trouble at Installation of some hard- and software....
So I hided C: under WinXP and also did the same on Vista (hiding D: from Vista) to prevent to snafu the OS each other...
Still everything OK so far....
But trying to look into the system recovery option I recognized that no information is available.
There is coming up a message that c:\boot.ini is not found.
So I'm afraid an system recovery from previous versions won't be possible....
That sounds logical to me, as boot.ini should be on "K:"...
But the system is searching for it on C: which is not available of course....
My question:
How can I redirect the access to boot.ini to K: ???
I aleady looked up in the registry but did't find any respective entries...
Or:
How can I cheat the naming of the partitions that they are the same as under Vista...
AFAIR with Win98 (I used Partition Magic and the respective Bootmanager) it was possible to boot several OS ... The boot manager made the active partion visble (always C
and kept all other data -drive and -partition letters...
Thanx a lot in advance for your help,
Regards
Wolfgang
Here I'm back ...
I have Vista Business on the first partition (C
I'm using the Dual Boot Option.
Everything went and works very well.
But now I'm facing a problem...
After installation I found that XP named all harddisks and partitions new, different to those under Vista.
That means that WinXP- OS is working now on "K:".... (which is "D:" under Vista)
On C: I found the Vista System unprotected from XP. That caused some trouble at Installation of some hard- and software....
So I hided C: under WinXP and also did the same on Vista (hiding D: from Vista) to prevent to snafu the OS each other...
Still everything OK so far....
But trying to look into the system recovery option I recognized that no information is available.
There is coming up a message that c:\boot.ini is not found.
So I'm afraid an system recovery from previous versions won't be possible....
That sounds logical to me, as boot.ini should be on "K:"...
But the system is searching for it on C: which is not available of course....
My question:
How can I redirect the access to boot.ini to K: ???
I aleady looked up in the registry but did't find any respective entries...
Or:
How can I cheat the naming of the partitions that they are the same as under Vista...
AFAIR with Win98 (I used Partition Magic and the respective Bootmanager) it was possible to boot several OS ... The boot manager made the active partion visble (always C
Thanx a lot in advance for your help,
Regards
Wolfgang