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jamesw

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 22:46

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


jamied

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 21:43

anybody know to sort it?
boot.ini is blanK?


James_DT

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 16:16

Vista doesn't use boot.ini, but it should not have touched the XP boot.ini. Check the D: drive for it, just incase.


jamied

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 11:33

its blank?


jamesw

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 11:32

try looking @ boot.ini file on c: drive, if you only have xp should have 1 entry only


jamied

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 11:05

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


jamesw

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 10:41

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?


PaulW

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 09:55

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...


Andrew

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 08:03

It is the beta version :lol: I have the very first beta version on a spare laptop. Wouldn't touch my main system with it lol.


jamesw

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 07:05

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


Bart

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 06:33

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]


Bart

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 06:29

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.


:rolleyes:


jamied

 posted on 30th Aug 06 at 02:01

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
:mad::|