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XP & Vista Dual Boot Issues
Yesterday (after reading a thread this group) I thought I would setup a new
partition on my hard drive to dual boot (from the existing XP Pro) and Vista. I made a new partition using Gparted and started the install of Vista on the new partition. A few minutes into the install and the system wanted to do a reboot (15 seconds counted down and the system restarted). I was then presented with a boot loader menu Vista or Earlier operating system. I selected Vista and it came up with an error something. I had no option but to quit out of it. I rebooted and the Vista setup (from DVD) started again. I went through the setup to the same point again when it restarted and shwed me the bnoot loader menu again. This time it had Vista listed twice (along with Earlier operating system). Im not sure why its failing at this point, but I would like to know if I can get rid of Vista and the boot menu and leave the system back as it was for now? Anyone any suggestions of how I can get it working, or remove Vista and the boot loader menu, which only allows me to start XP (Earlier operating system). Thanks a lot Ken |
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XP & Vista Dual Boot Issues
"Ken Ross" wrote in message ... Yesterday (after reading a thread this group) I thought I would setup a new partition on my hard drive to dual boot (from the existing XP Pro) and Vista. I made a new partition using Gparted and started the install of Vista on the new partition. A few minutes into the install and the system wanted to do a reboot (15 seconds counted down and the system restarted). I was then presented with a boot loader menu Vista or Earlier operating system. I selected Vista and it came up with an error something. I had no option but to quit out of it. I rebooted and the Vista setup (from DVD) started again. I went through the setup to the same point again when it restarted and shwed me the bnoot loader menu again. This time it had Vista listed twice (along with Earlier operating system). Im not sure why its failing at this point, but I would like to know if I can get rid of Vista and the boot menu and leave the system back as it was for now? Anyone any suggestions of how I can get it working, or remove Vista and the boot loader menu, which only allows me to start XP (Earlier operating system). Thanks a lot Ken Boot your machine with your WinXP installation CD to get into the Recovery Console. You can then run these commands: - fixboot - fixmbr - bootcfg /rebuild |
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XP & Vista Dual Boot Issues
"Ken Ross" wrote in message
... Yesterday (after reading a thread this group) I thought I would setup a new partition on my hard drive to dual boot (from the existing XP Pro) and Vista. I made a new partition using Gparted and started the install of Vista on the new partition. A few minutes into the install and the system wanted to do a reboot (15 seconds counted down and the system restarted). I was then presented with a boot loader menu Vista or Earlier operating system. I selected Vista and it came up with an error something. I had no option but to quit out of it. I rebooted and the Vista setup (from DVD) started again. I went through the setup to the same point again when it restarted and shwed me the bnoot loader menu again. This time it had Vista listed twice (along with Earlier operating system). Im not sure why its failing at this point, but I would like to know if I can get rid of Vista and the boot menu and leave the system back as it was for now? Anyone any suggestions of how I can get it working, or remove Vista and the boot loader menu, which only allows me to start XP (Earlier operating system). Thanks a lot Ken If you don't have an XP installation CD you can install this program under Windows XP to restore XP's bootloader. VistaBootPRO 3.3 http://www.vistabootpro.org/ Once you've launched the program, click on System Bootloader. Select "Windows Legacy Bootloader". Select "All Drives". Hit the "Install Bootloader" button. Good luck Nepatsfan |
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