Vista and XP

Posted: 05-25-2007, 03:20 AM
I installed Vista (wiped out XP completely) and then decided to reinstall XP
on a different drive (Vista on drive 1, XP drive 2 - not partitions,
separate drives). Vista, of course, wouldn't load, so I did a repair. Now
XP won't load.

Everything I see on the web says install XP first and then Vista will pick
it up. What can I do in my situation (short of fixing XP and then
reinstalling Vista)?

Thanks.

Robert

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Don
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Re: Vista and XP
Posted: 05-26-2007, 01:10 AM
Robert wrote:
> I installed Vista (wiped out XP completely) and then decided to
> reinstall XP on a different drive (Vista on drive 1, XP drive 2 - not
> partitions, separate drives). Vista, of course, wouldn't load, so I did
> a repair. Now XP won't load.
>
> Everything I see on the web says install XP first and then Vista will
> pick it up. What can I do in my situation (short of fixing XP and then
> reinstalling Vista)?
By far the easiest is to install VistaBootPRO (vistabootpro.org), then
click on the 'System Bootloader' icon and reinstall the Vista boot
loader with the 'All Drives' option selected.

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John Barnes
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Re: Vista and XP
Posted: 05-26-2007, 01:26 AM
Download and install either VistaBootPro or EasyBCD, set up a legacy drive
entry for your XP system. If you still have a problem, copy ntdetect.com and
ntldr and boot.ini files to your Vista drive and correct the drive number in
the boot.ini for the properly enumerated drive.

"Robert" <lektrikpuke@_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I installed Vista (wiped out XP completely) and then decided to reinstall
>XP on a different drive (Vista on drive 1, XP drive 2 - not partitions,
>separate drives). Vista, of course, wouldn't load, so I did a repair. Now
>XP won't load.
>
> Everything I see on the web says install XP first and then Vista will pick
> it up. What can I do in my situation (short of fixing XP and then
> reinstalling Vista)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robert
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Robert
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Re: Vista and XP
Posted: 05-26-2007, 02:24 AM
Thanks guys. I got it working now. =)

"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
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> Download and install either VistaBootPro or EasyBCD, set up a legacy drive
> entry for your XP system. If you still have a problem, copy ntdetect.com
> and ntldr and boot.ini files to your Vista drive and correct the drive
> number in the boot.ini for the properly enumerated drive.
>
> "Robert" <lektrikpuke@_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:%23xHp5MnnHHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I installed Vista (wiped out XP completely) and then decided to reinstall
>>XP on a different drive (Vista on drive 1, XP drive 2 - not partitions,
>>separate drives). Vista, of course, wouldn't load, so I did a repair.
>>Now XP won't load.
>>
>> Everything I see on the web says install XP first and then Vista will
>> pick it up. What can I do in my situation (short of fixing XP and then
>> reinstalling Vista)?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Robert
>
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