Dual Boot

Bols O'Fyr · 9 May 2009 at 17:39

Hi peeps,
Running Vista ultimate home 32bit on a 160 Gb sata, which is partitioned into 4; C, D, E, F.
Vista installed to C
Installed XP 64bit on F.
I dont get a boot menu.
To get back into Vista, I had to use the setup disc to repair the mbr.
Now I cant get into XP, as there is no boot menu.

What should I do please ?

Cheers,
BoF

Spear · 9 May 2009 at 17:57

If I understand you right; you're saying you can boot into vista? Looks like this guide might help: http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_xp__stepbystep_guide_with_screenshots.htm?page=5

Bols O'Fyr · 9 May 2009 at 20:21

Yeah, read that guide, tried easybcd, cant get it to do what I want to do. I do now get a boot menu, but when I select windows xp it comes up with
"file: \NTLDR
STATUS: 0xc000000f"
Any ideas ?

BoF

Bols O'Fyr · 9 May 2009 at 21:25

Its now ok !
I edited an XP boot.ini file to include vista and xp, added it to the root of F: along with NTLDR and ntdetect.com. It now seems to work OK !

BoF