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March 23rd 07, 08:45 PM
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Installing Windows XP after Vista in Dual Boot Configuration
I've been running Vista for about a month. I have three partitions on my
hard drive: Vista-160GB, Boot-1.5GB, Free-80GB (I'm running BitLocker). I want to install XP to the free partition and dual boot. I've tried doing this previously. As I expected I was unable to boot into vista after installing XP (the BCD store was deleted). I figured I could boot off of the vista disk, do a startup repair (which would rewrite the MBR) and boot into vista. I then used to EasyBCD to make a legacy OS entry in the bootloader. Everything worked fine. But, after I restarted my computer and tried to boot into XP, I got a message about "cannot find ntldr" How do I set up my dual boot without formatting and reinstalling in the proper order? 
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March 23rd 07, 11:42 PM
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Installing Windows XP after Vista in Dual Boot Configuration
none wrote:
.... I restarted my computer and tried to boot into XP, I got a message about "cannot find ntldr" Vista's bootmgr is just looking in the wrong place for ntldr. You should find it in the root directory of your XP installation (probably). Search for it and copy it *and* boot.ini into the root directory where you see Vista's \boot directory. You should also see \bootmgr in the same place.
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