i've tried installing VBP3.1 in vista and can get it to show a boot menu but it won't let XP run which is on the partition i configured it for. when i select xp to be the operating system to run on the countdown, pc just reboots to POST. but if i select vista, it goes into vista fine. i uninstalled the boot in vista and installed VBP3.1 in xp with net frame thingy 2.0. installed fine and now in xp, i can't get it to let me install ANY OS's in that list. i select Vista as the os type, name it 'vista', select drive C as that is the drive it is on and click apply. nothing appears in the os list above it. same if i try to select windows legacy...
any ideas?

Hey Jimbo! I have moved your post here because you seem to have a VBPRO issue, not a Vista issue. Someone will be along shortly to help you with your problem.

Hello and welcome to PROnetworks Jimbo StLawrence!! Please stop by our Introduction Area so we can give you a PRO welcome. As to your issue, please be patient as our members stop in and check out your specific issue.

We need to get some more info on your setup for installing Vista; things like are you using IDE/SATA HDD's or a combination of those, as well as any RAID arrays. Also let us know how you "Prepped" your HDD partition for Vista. Enjoy the site!

Hi there. Vista is installed on a single 20gig drive (IDE). After I installed that i discovered raid drivers compatible for vista for it to recognise my 2 SATA drives on the mobo RAID [ASROCK 939 Dual SATA2 [hdd's are single SATA, not SATA2]]. Raid is striped not mirrored. XP is the first partition on the Raid array and was present prior to installing vista. i can, by selecting which drive the system boots from enter either vista or xp. I entered vista and installed the VBPro3.1 and made the 2 entries 1 for vista on the raid and one for xp on the E: drive as shown in windows explorer - in fact, at this stage, i think that the vista partition was already listed in the OS list in VBPro. I told VBPro to install the Bootloader. upon rebooting, the boot loader was there, but i was only able to enter vista from the menu. if i tried to go into windows xp [as i had labelled it in the menu there], the pc would think for 1 second on a blank screen and then the machine would reset and cycle through POST back to the bootloader.
I tried all this again in windows xp, after installing net frame' 2.0 but within xp i was unable to add any operating systems to the OS list for the bootloader menu. everytime i clicked apply for a vista os or windows legacy, it just added nothing and reset the tickboxes / operating system name to blanks ready for me to add another OS.
Does this help?
many thanks for getting back to me so quickly on this issue. If i can't get VBPro to run, i can still get into the operating systems by the mobo hdd boot menu, but it would be nice to have a smoother choice...
regards
Jimbo

Jimbo StLawrence,

Welcome to PROnetworks and sorry for the delay in replies, but I am trying to take in your problem. It actually looks like all you need to do is insert the Vista DVD and do a Boot Mgr recover. It looks like the problem might be that Vista did not install the Boot folder onto your XP partition like it was suppose to. Can you give us a screenshot of your disk management console. Also, can you post the contents of VBP View Settings "All".

Thanks.
Jason

Hi there!

I'm also experiencing the same problem. I have installed Vista from booting its DVD and it does not automatically add the older Windows XP installation I have residing on another drive....

When I add the entries using VBPro 3.1 - and try to boot XP it just resets the machine and cycles back to P O S T.......

I've got the exact same problem too.

I really wanna get this working..

I had this problem . For the first time, I had installed XP on another HD, rather than on another partition. For me, the answer to the problem bacame was simple. I copied all the relevant root files over to the Xp Hd and I was back in busness. You have to make sure your boot.ini is showing the correct path of course.

The problem is i'm using vista as my base OS, and XP came after....

Not sure what to do

bart5986 wrote:

The problem is i'm using vista as my base OS, and XP came after.... Not sure what to do

See if this will help you at all bart5986

Reformatted and Reinstalled XP: Lost Boot to Vista