jamied
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Hey,just installed vista beta, works well etc apart from I must have done it wrong as before windows was on c: and when i installed vista i put it on d:
yet when it came on, it came onto vista with no dual boot option, and now vista is installed on c: and xp is d: ??
how do i get the dual boot menu up?
cheers
 
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
lol.. its a 2 gig image.
dont install it if you plan to use it as your main OS.. its only a beta, and is ment for testing purposes.
I think the latest builds of Vista do not dual boot well either.
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Bart
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you need to edit your boot.ini file which you can only see if you open 'my computer', tools -> folder options
and tick 'show system files'
im guessing you need to edit the boot.ini in your vist root dir (c .
once you open boot.ini under [Operating Systems]
under the line where it says windows vista it would need to be something like
quote:
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
But thats just mine, your disc and partition numbers will need to be correct.
best of luck to you, and a nice warning to anyone else planning on installing Vista on their main PC.
and im guessing you only have a number of days before vista time bomb goes off and you are left with no windows
[Edited on 30-08-2006 by Bart]
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jamesw
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by sounds of it vista bootloader hasnt detected the xp install, in vista theres a command you can run from the command prompt
http://manoj.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/dual-booting-vista-and-xp/
Failing that if you run fixboot from the winxp cd recovery console and fixmbr, it will put back in place the normal xp bootloader
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Andrew
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It is the beta version  I have the very first beta version on a spare laptop. Wouldn't touch my main system with it lol.
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PaulW
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I have Beta 2 & XP Pro dualling on my laptop at present, no issues!
Only using Vista to get used to it in regards to DX & OpenGL support for next year at uni...
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jamesw
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Only thing i can think, how did you install vista mate? i started my install from within xp- im guessing you booted straight from cd?
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jamied
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Hey, yeh I booted from cd, Back on xp now tho. Used fixboot and mbr
some reason it says error msg about boot.ini now andsays "booting from c:\windows"
no no dual boot menu?
cheers 4 help
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jamesw
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try looking @ boot.ini file on c: drive, if you only have xp should have 1 entry only
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jamied
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its blank?
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James_DT
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Vista doesn't use boot.ini, but it should not have touched the XP boot.ini. Check the D: drive for it, just incase.
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jamied
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anybody know to sort it?
boot.ini is blanK?
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jamesw
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quite possibly is, boot into recovery console and run
bootcfg /scan
will come up saying it found xp, and i think then asks if you want to add it to the boot menu
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