Vista Dual Boot Query Please

Buckster · 17 Nov 2006 at 19:18

OK I have XP and Vista - dual boot on separate drive.

Windows XP installed a few months back, then Vista RC2 on the other drive, Vista setup the dual boot.

now I crashed my XP build (overclocked RAM too high) - and needs reinstalling.

if I FDisk my XP drive and re-install XP - I'm presuming I'll loose the dual boot - can I then get it back without reinstalling vista ? Are there any files I need to keep like boot.ini ?

thanks for any help,

Mark.

harris1986 · 17 Nov 2006 at 19:29

what has actually happend to your ram? surely if it's a failed overclock you can just reset cmos and your good to go?

Buckster · 17 Nov 2006 at 19:33

sorry I wasn't very clear was I - overclocked my RAM 4:5 to 860 - ORTHOS stable for 9 hours + ...

- but then after a week - it crashed on bootup - right at the end - desktop was visible etc.

restarted and got \systems32\system corrupt

so had to put old version of system in place of it - but its messed everything up - internet not working, DVD drive says in device manager "corrupt or missing driver" etc .. bascially its screwed up - so need to reinstall

harris1986 · 17 Nov 2006 at 19:45

ahh, you tried doing a repair through the windows setup?

Buckster · 17 Nov 2006 at 19:50

no I copied over from repair directory on c: the file - but I think its the same one as on the repair disk.

I uninstalled just about everything on the XP buld now -but no internet - think all the Winsocks etc are up the creak, DVD drive doesn't work etc ?! LOL

J.B · 17 Nov 2006 at 20:30

well if you do lose the boot.ini then you can always rewrite it once ** back into windows

Buckster · 17 Nov 2006 at 20:41

ok thanks - so is it just boot.ini that does it or do I need any other files ?

thanks for the help,

Mark.