installed vista then xp 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, 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.
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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/Article/ArticleID/45014/45014.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. ***********************************************************
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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/ ---------- 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, 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!
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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/~elektronicaenzo/Downloads/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/Article/ArticleID/45014/45014.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 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

Conor wrote:

In article , 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?

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.

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

Well, generally speaking, Newer versions of Windows recognize boot partitions of older versions of windows, but not vice versa. Which means that if you want to run dual boot vista and XP, you need to install XP BEFORE installing vista. At least it worked that way for me. :)
-- Man who walk through airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok.

"Gaoler" wrote in message

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

Well, generally speaking, Newer versions of Windows recognize boot partitions of older versions of windows, but not vice versa. Which means that if you want to run dual boot vista and XP, you need to install XP BEFORE installing vista. At least it worked that way for me. :)

That's the way it's always worked with Windows. Microsoft's recommended order of installing OSes is "oldest, then newest".
This makes sense to me.
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Donald L McDaniel Please reply to the original thread.... ========================================================

yes, vista does not use boot.ini, like XP did. Instead, it uses a program called BCD, which needs to be the most recently installed boot file to get into vista.
Simplest way to get to Vista: boot from the vista dvd, and run the startup repair tool. That will allow you into vista, but not XP.
To boot into either, you MUST do that step first, and then do step two in the resolution section of KB919529.
Post your results, and good luck!
"Gaoler" wrote:

Conor wrote: In article , 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?

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.