Dead XP Pro after dual-booting with Vista

> Bill Clark wrote:

>> Windows XP Pro installed on an 80gb NTFS hard drive. I used PM8 to
>> reduce that primary partion by 20gb for a Vista dual-boot. Rebooted the
>> machine w/ Vista Business FULL in the drive, installed fine into the
>> newly created partition. Upon reboot, got the Windows Boot Manager w/
>> the 2 options, selected the Vista option and performed all the available
>> upgrades and it worked fine. Now when I reboot and select the WinXP boot
>> option, the system just hangs. I've tried pressing F8 after selecting
>> WinXP and I can get the menu, but SAFE MODE doesn't work, it hangs also.
>> Vista partition is still working just fine, any ideas on howto fix?

>
> Is the XP partition visible from Vista? Can you check the XP filesystem
> from Vista?
>

> Yes, I can see the partition and interact with files & folders.
>
> "Don" <don195702@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eLHOKALnHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Bill Clark wrote:

>>> Windows XP Pro installed on an 80gb NTFS hard drive. I used PM8 to
>>> reduce that primary partion by 20gb for a Vista dual-boot. Rebooted the
>>> machine w/ Vista Business FULL in the drive, installed fine into the
>>> newly created partition. Upon reboot, got the Windows Boot Manager w/
>>> the 2 options, selected the Vista option and performed all the available
>>> upgrades and it worked fine. Now when I reboot and select the WinXP boot
>>> option, the system just hangs. I've tried pressing F8 after selecting
>>> WinXP and I can get the menu, but SAFE MODE doesn't work, it hangs also.
>>> Vista partition is still working just fine, any ideas on howto fix?

>> Is the XP partition visible from Vista? Can you check the XP filesystem
>> from Vista?

> Bill Clark wrote:

>> Yes, I can see the partition and interact with files & folders.
>>
>> "Don" <don195702@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:eLHOKALnHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>>> Bill Clark wrote:
>>>> Windows XP Pro installed on an 80gb NTFS hard drive. I used PM8 to
>>>> reduce that primary partion by 20gb for a Vista dual-boot. Rebooted
>>>> the machine w/ Vista Business FULL in the drive, installed fine into
>>>> the newly created partition. Upon reboot, got the Windows Boot Manager
>>>> w/ the 2 options, selected the Vista option and performed all the
>>>> available upgrades and it worked fine. Now when I reboot and select
>>>> the WinXP boot option, the system just hangs. I've tried pressing F8
>>>> after selecting WinXP and I can get the menu, but SAFE MODE doesn't
>>>> work, it hangs also. Vista partition is still working just fine, any
>>>> ideas on howto fix?
>>> Is the XP partition visible from Vista? Can you check the XP filesystem
>>> from Vista?

>
> I would install VistaBootPro from vistabootpro.org and run its diagnostics
> utility.
>

> Tried that, it doesn't detect that anything is wrong. I may just try it
> all over again.

> Bill
>
> "Don" wrote

>> Bill Clark wrote:

>>> Yes, I can see the partition and interact with files & folders.

>>> "Don" wrote
>>>> Bill Clark wrote:
>>>>> Windows XP Pro installed on an 80gb NTFS hard drive. I used PM8 to
>>>>> reduce that primary partion by 20gb for a Vista dual-boot. Rebooted
>>>>> the machine w/ Vista Business FULL in the drive, installed fine into
>>>>> the newly created partition. Upon reboot, got the Windows Boot
>>>>> Manager w/ the 2 options, selected the Vista option and performed all
>>>>> the available upgrades and it worked fine. Now when I reboot and
>>>>> select the WinXP boot option, the system just hangs. I've tried
>>>>> pressing F8 after selecting WinXP and I can get the menu, but SAFE
>>>>> MODE doesn't work, it hangs also. Vista partition is still working
>>>>> just fine, any ideas on howto fix?
>>>> Is the XP partition visible from Vista? Can you check the XP
>>>> filesystem
>>>> from Vista?

>>
>> I would install VistaBootPro from vistabootpro.org and run its
>> diagnostics utility.