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Tk1biglove

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February 22nd, 2007 00:00

I need sooooooo much help!

Hi Guys
 
Where to start!
 
Well. Last week I installed Vista. Some games dont work so I partioned my Hard Drive and reinstalled XP Media Centre. I couldnt get Vista to boot as it went straight to XP. I downloaded Vistabootpro and it seemed easy enough. This gave me a choice of what OS to boot. Great (I thought). I had 2 choices. Vista or XP. I chose Vista. Booted up as normal. So I rebooted and chose XP.....nothing happened until I got a message saying windows\system32\winload.exe i missing or corrupt. Insert your xp cd and choose repair. I did....nothing happens! It asks for the OS to repair so I choose XP and it just goes to the D: prompt and nothing else!!
 
Is there anyway someone can help me simply get my PC to dualboot with a choice of XP or Vista?
 
TK1
  • joe53

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    Posted February 22nd, 2007 00:00

    I haven't tried it yet, but the following link might help:
     
  • tgsmith

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    Posted February 22nd, 2007 01:00

    Joe53,
     
    Yes.  That part about XP writing to every disk it sees has bugged me in the past.  Hard to recover data from a corrupt external drive when XP is trying to mount it (no pun intended).
     
    Tony
  • reaverclan

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    Posted March 1st, 2007 14:00

    yo u need to install xp then vista
    cuase when u reinstaled xp it uses xp boot manager and if u put xp then vista it will use vista boot manager and u can choose whiich to run k happy pc'ing