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Win XP/Vista dual boot but boots into XP only
OK. A while back, I had Win XP on drive C. I installed Win Vista x64
[Ultimate retail] on drive D [needed to boot to the DVd as the system booted up]. Worked perfectly .... Unitil I had hard disk issues. Reinstalled Win XP late last year and decided to reinstall Vista x64 again. Followed just like above. Everything went smoothly. Rebooted. Went directly into Win XP. No menu or anything. Never saw the Vista bootloader. Booted off the Vista DVD and selected repair. Ran bootrec /scanos - detected only Vista. Tried the /fixmbr and /rebuildbcd and /fixboot and none worked. Ideas? Thanks |
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Win XP/Vista dual boot but boots into XP only
Go here and download EasyBcd Probably
help ----http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 "Gis Bun" wrote in message ... OK. A while back, I had Win XP on drive C. I installed Win Vista x64 [Ultimate retail] on drive D [needed to boot to the DVd as the system booted up]. Worked perfectly .... Unitil I had hard disk issues. Reinstalled Win XP late last year and decided to reinstall Vista x64 again. Followed just like above. Everything went smoothly. Rebooted. Went directly into Win XP. No menu or anything. Never saw the Vista bootloader. Booted off the Vista DVD and selected repair. Ran bootrec /scanos - detected only Vista. Tried the /fixmbr and /rebuildbcd and /fixboot and none worked. Ideas? Thanks |
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Win XP/Vista dual boot but boots into XP only
Gis Bun wrote:
OK. A while back, I had Win XP on drive C. I installed Win Vista x64 [Ultimate retail] on drive D [needed to boot to the DVd as the system booted up]. Worked perfectly .... Unitil I had hard disk issues. Reinstalled Win XP late last year and decided to reinstall Vista x64 again. Followed just like above. Everything went smoothly. Rebooted. Went directly into Win XP. No menu or anything. Never saw the Vista bootloader. Booted off the Vista DVD and selected repair. Ran bootrec /scanos - detected only Vista. Tried the /fixmbr and /rebuildbcd and /fixboot and none worked. Ideas? Thanks ================================ Maybe VistaBootPRO would be worth a look: http://www.vistabootpro.org/ -- J. Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk |
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Win XP/Vista dual boot but boots into XP only
It worked nicely.
But with a word of warning. I found out on my next Win XP bootup that it seems the software installs a hidden task scheduler job in Win XP. According to the author, this is to check for updates. A strange way to check for updates through a RSS feed. It also stops after 5 hours and change and the first run is about 30 minutes of installing EasyBootBCD. Personally, I'll hopefully use it once and that's it. I don't need to check for update for a one time thing [same reason why I didn't bother with VistaBootPro. Why pay $10 for a small issue that I could blame on MS?]. "HF" wrote: Go here and download EasyBcd Probably help ----http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 "Gis Bun" wrote in message ... OK. A while back, I had Win XP on drive C. I installed Win Vista x64 [Ultimate retail] on drive D [needed to boot to the DVd as the system booted up]. Worked perfectly .... Unitil I had hard disk issues. Reinstalled Win XP late last year and decided to reinstall Vista x64 again. Followed just like above. Everything went smoothly. Rebooted. Went directly into Win XP. No menu or anything. Never saw the Vista bootloader. Booted off the Vista DVD and selected repair. Ran bootrec /scanos - detected only Vista. Tried the /fixmbr and /rebuildbcd and /fixboot and none worked. Ideas? Thanks |