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Przepraszam
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 Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 22:40 Post subject: I dont understand how to dual boot vista and xp |
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i just dont get it... I have installed vista installed on a partition on first harddrive
then I have second hard drive with 2 partitions...I install windows XP on it..and system boots into XP..which no option to chose between vista or xp...if i understand it correctly i suppose to boot vista dvd to repair the master boot, which I did but then system boots into vista with no option to chose xp
did i do anything wrong here? does it matter if they are on different harddrives or they must be on same hard drive but different partitions?
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 22:51 Post subject: |
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What you did wrong is, you installed Vista first and XP later. How is the XP boot loader, which was released in 2001 supposed to recognize Vista's boot loader, which is completely different, and add Vista to the list of available operating systems?
What you should do is, repair the latest operating system (in your case, Vista), then use VistaBootPro or EasyBCD to manually add the XP installation to the list of operating systems.
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 23:05 Post subject: |
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used easybcd and I get error file\ntldr
0x000000f...i assume i must use xp cd to repair it?
have to go to store now, will google it later >>
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Jan 2009 10:36 Post subject: |
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I installed Vista after XP and still had shit about it. I even installed it on a different drives... Anywho I unplugged Vista drive (didn't work anything I tried in BIOS), them put XP cd and made fixmbr on XP drive ( $en$i helped me: http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50635). Try that, maybe it'll help...
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Jan 2009 15:21 Post subject: |
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it's best to install vista after XP. BUt if you want to do it your way you can easily use VistaBootPro to get everything working fine, that's what I did.
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Feb 2009 11:09 Post subject: |
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| iNatan wrote: | What you did wrong is, you installed Vista first and XP later. How is the XP boot loader, which was released in 2001 supposed to recognize Vista's boot loader, which is completely different, and add Vista to the list of available operating systems?
What you should do is, repair the latest operating system (in your case, Vista), then use VistaBootPro or EasyBCD to manually add the XP installation to the list of operating systems. |
THANK YOU, I was baffled why I had a problem, I couldn't get to a boot loader or anything, it just came up with "Error Cannot Load Operating System" (or something to that effect), but luckily I had an ASUS board which had ASUS Express Gate so I could access the internet (although without adblocker >.>) and saw this thread, spent the next 5 hrs or so swapping hard drives out of my external (still has screws unlike my case, tool free cases are great) and deleting both partitions of my OS' then installing them the other way around, although if it wasn't for that I probably wouldn't have noticed the Resident Evil 5 and Killzone 2 demos on PSN :\.
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