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Installing Windows XP after Vista in Dual Boot Configuration
please....somebody help me. I'm trying to update the software on my windows
mobile pda. if I run it from vista it will fail and brick my device. I need to get this dual boot working. none wrote in message ... 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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Installing Windows XP after Vista in Dual Boot Configuration
You need to be patient enough, if asking for help here, to wait more than 40
minutes for useful responses. What I would suggest would be to repair XP and run the reenablement of Vista from XP by installing VistaBootPro in XP as outlined at the end of the series of steps covered he http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88231 ( so you know where to go for http://www.vistabootpro.org/ ) It is possible, that with BitLocker enabled, that won't work. If that's so, either wait for better advice, or remove BitLocker to get the dual boot. none wrote in message ... please....somebody help me. I'm trying to update the software on my windows mobile pda. if I run it from vista it will fail and brick my device. I need to get this dual boot working. none wrote in message ... 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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Installing Windows XP after Vista in Dual Boot Configuration
In article , none says...
please....somebody help me. I'm trying to update the software on my windows mobile pda. if I run it from vista it will fail and brick my device. I need to get this dual boot working. none wrote in message ... 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? Remove the dual-boot from the vista-loader and use a 3th-party bootmanager. If you use only primair partitions and 1 drive you can use my HWBOOT bootmanager. But... it is in Dutch. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Jawade. Bootmanager ook voor Vista Zin in een koffie- thee- of borrelpraatje? Kom naar alt.jawade.nl http://jawade.nl (Mirror op http://www.geocities.com/kolibrie.geo) Bootmanager, ClrMBR, DiskEditors, POP3lezer, Filebrowser, Kalender |