installed Vista then xp and vista boot disappears

Hi everyone,
I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
Kindest regards,
Kevin

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:15:48 -0500, <kmickl@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
>with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
>Kindest regards,
>Kevin
>

You install XP first then Vista.

Vista boot menu has gone because XP has overwritten it. I suggest you
start again but seach this group for "dual boot" how tos, there are
plenty, research thoroughly.

Conor will shout at you as soon as he sees this.

8-)

Jonah

Jonah is right. The rule of thumb is to install operating systems from
oldest to newest when setting up a multiboot system. If you intend to
install both x86 and x64 editions of Vista then that order will not matter
because they are siblings.

<kmickl@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OfgRiiYlGHA.3344@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> Hi everyone,
> I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot
> menu
> with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
> Kindest regards,
> Kevin
>
>

i don't think there is a need to re-install or bother about sequencing of
installation. U only need to copy certain files from vista over and vista
shld be back.

sorry, because i just try out vista (i day experience), i can't make out
what files to suggest. However this windows articles (windows.net mag) i
wrote state my point.
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/...014/45014.html. Just
apply the principles below.

or (the articles stated below if u are not a subscriber)

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installed both Windows 2003 and Win2K on my home PC's hard disk. I wanted to
be able to dual boot both OSs, but I discovered that if you install Windows
2003 first on a separate partition, you aren't able to dual boot. You can
boot only to Win2K.


Rather than uninstall and reinstall the OSs, I solved the problem by copying
the Windows NT Loader (Ntldr) and Ntdetect.com files from the Windows 2003
CD-ROM to C:\. The latest version of these files can detect both OSs. Ntldr
determines the location of the OS boot partition and launches Ntdetect.com.
Ntdetect.com, in turn, obtains device and configuration information.
************************************************** *********


<kmickl@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OfgRiiYlGHA.3344@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> Hi everyone,
> I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot
> menu
> with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
> Kindest regards,
> Kevin
>
>

Wait for the next release of VistaBootPRO http://www.vistabootpro.org/
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Mark Dietz
PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org>

kmickl@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
> with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
> Kindest regards,
> Kevin
>
>

Too stupid for a beta OS.

When you help someone like this they will just be back in a few more
days with more stupid question.

This group is being flooded with moronic questions:
How do I get a product key
Where do I get a driver for xyz hardware
Won't install on my lapotop
Won't install on my computer circa 1968
My crappy video card won't run aero glass (the sky is falling)
My crappy sound card doesn't work
Can't figure out how to activate
Will my 16 bit program from 1992 run on Vista
How long can I use Vista Beta
How do I dual boot
I NEED STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO GET XP BACK
cannot delete windows.old file

Ignore them, children should only listen to adult conversations, not
be incouraged to join in.


On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:15:48 -0500, <kmickl@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
>with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
>Kindest regards,
>Kevin
>

Hello!

<kmickl@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:OfgRiiYlGHA.3344@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> Hi everyone,
> I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
> with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
> Kindest regards,
> Kevin

You can use BootPart 2.60, if your boot partition is FAT/FAT32:
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
http://home.hetnet.nl/~elektronicaen...s/Bootpart.txt

NEW IN VERSION 2.60
- 64 bits executables
- option "bootpart vista boot:c:" to rebuild Windows Vista Bootmgr on FAT partition

Regards, Roman

This was good advice up until Vista. Vista no-longer uses the NTLDR
method of booting so just copying the files around will not help. You will
notice that Vista does not use a boot.ini file either.

If you search the Vista partition you should find a program called fixntfs
if memory serves me right. Run "fixntfs -lh" and that may fix things up so
that Vista is back in charge. However, Vista likely won't know about XP so
you still won't be able to dual boot.

You best option is to reinstall Vista with XP already installed and let the
Vista installer create the dual boot store for you.

"James" wrote:

> i don't think there is a need to re-install or bother about sequencing of
> installation. U only need to copy certain files from vista over and vista
> shld be back.
>
> sorry, because i just try out vista (i day experience), i can't make out
> what files to suggest. However this windows articles (windows.net mag) i
> wrote state my point.
> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/...014/45014.html. Just
> apply the principles below.
>
> or (the articles stated below if u are not a subscriber)
>
> ************************************************** *********
>
> installed both Windows 2003 and Win2K on my home PC's hard disk. I wanted to
> be able to dual boot both OSs, but I discovered that if you install Windows
> 2003 first on a separate partition, you aren't able to dual boot. You can
> boot only to Win2K.
>
>
> Rather than uninstall and reinstall the OSs, I solved the problem by copying
> the Windows NT Loader (Ntldr) and Ntdetect.com files from the Windows 2003
> CD-ROM to C:\. The latest version of these files can detect both OSs. Ntldr
> determines the location of the OS boot partition and launches Ntdetect.com.
> Ntdetect.com, in turn, obtains device and configuration information.
> ************************************************** *********
>
>
> <kmickl@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:OfgRiiYlGHA.3344@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>
>
>

In article <OfgRiiYlGHA.3344@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, says...

> Hi everyone,
> I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
> with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?

Anyone tell me what's the point in explaining?


--
Conor

Who the fuck said I was trying to endear myself to anyone?

Conor wrote:

> In article <OfgRiiYlGHA.3344@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, says...

>
> Anyone tell me what's the point in explaining?
>
>

Well, the more you answer and the more you take the time to educate
these clueless posters, the less things they are clueless to post back
about again.

--
Man who walk through airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok.