Am I screwed?

Robert

Robert

Robert

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Basically I just got hold of Vista Business from uni. Now, I have XP pro on my C: and I made a partition for vista. I installed it - now I don't get a boot menu...it just loads straight to vista and when I press F5 or whatever for the boot menu it doesn't shop XP pro in there...damnit!
 
Yeah I can. The thing is - where my XP pro partition was C: and my Vista partition was F or something, in vista it's now C (but still on the specific partition I made for it). Either way yes windows is still there. Could you point me in the direct of a boot manager please?
 
Robert said:
Yeah I can. The thing is - where my XP pro partition was C: and my Vista partition was F or something, in vista it's now C (but still on the specific partition I made for it). Either way yes windows is still there. Could you point me in the direct of a boot manager please?
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Yeah, had to do a forum search but the one I linked to above seems to be the recommended one on these forums.

Never used it myself, I run Vista only, so I can't say if it's good or not.
 
I just installed that boot manager and it said ntfsdr or something was corrupt - and to put my XP disk in and repair - even though they are on different drives?

Edit: In the info of vistabootpro it's showing the NTLDR as being on my D which it isn't...it's on the F: - how can I change this?
 
I havn't used gag for running 2 versions of windows, but I thnk if you have 2 versions of windows on the 1 drive you need to set an option in gag, hide partitions or something like that.
 
Well I made a new OS up in the bootloader and selected F:, when I rebooted I could select what I'd added but it then rebooted my PC.
 
When you pressed S to setup gag was there a tick next to hide primary partitions ? as I think you need this ticked, letter i

and when you added an os to the menu did you get a choice of 2 partitions to pick from ?
 
I know what I've done wrong...I installed vista by booting from the cdrom - hence it now sees my F:windows as D and it has taken over C :/
 
I have - as it says:

multibooter said:
Drive letters
When installing Vista by booting from the DVD the new Vista OS will always designate itself as the C: drive, even if you are letting it configure a dual/multi boot arrangement for you with the Microsoft bootmanager. Any current system partition will then be seen from inside Vista as the D: drive. If you install Vista from within an existing Windows OS then the current system partition drive letter (almost invariably C:) will be carried into Vista and the new Vista install will assign itself the next free drive letter that was available in the Windows OS you carried out the Vista install from. To select a drive letter of choice you should create and format the Vista partition before hand and use Disk Management to assign the letter you want, then point the Vista install to that partition.
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IT doesn't say how to fix it though :/
 
Sounds like vista is a bit funny with its bootloader, I read that you can use bcedit command line utility to add entries into the vista bootloader, or use a gui front end for it, there is one called Easybcd might be worth trying to read more about it, heres a link to the program -

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
 
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