Running VBP fine (installed with telephone instruction from friend who is now not available) Vista and XP on seperate drives.
Had problems with XP so reinstalled.
I cannot now boot XP with VBP, but I can by changing Boot order which then boots directly into XP.
When trying to bot to XP using VBP I am told there is a file missing and to reinstall it.

I get the message Vista pro not installed or on hidden drive when I open
VBP
Have read forums and done the following
Copyed Boot folder and bootmgr to drive d (XP installed) and NTDETECT, ntldr and boot.ini to drive C (vista installed)

Run VBP Selected
Vista boot pro
All drives
Force bootloader install
No change
Have tried both as default OS

Have checked Drive C is system drive
Looks like d is also a system drive when in XP although its labled C and vista drive is then labled E
What should I do to get my VBP 3.3 operating both os again

There is currently 2 OS(s) installed on your system.
The current boot timeout is: 30

Default OS: Microsoft Windows Vista

Entry 1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Boot Drive: C:
Windows Drive: C:
System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry 2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Windows XP
BCD ID: {ntldr}
Boot Drive: D:
System Bootloader: \ntldr


Thankyou
Steve

(Please keep reply step by step, took me ages to write this)

Is this the procedure you followed when you reinstalled XP? http://www.pronetworks.org/index.php/guides/post/reinstalling_windows_xp_when_dual_booting_with_windows_vista/

Or did you unplug your Vista drive?

If you did unplug your Vista drive I would reinstall XP following this guide. http://www.pronetworks.org/index.php/guides/post/install_windows_xp_in_a_dual_boot_with_pre_installed_windows_vista/

I unplugged the Drive with Vista on it so I could'nt accidently wipe off Vista or my 3rd drive which is purely a store (music etc) Are you saying the only way to get VBP to run is to reinstall XP again which I really would like to avoid if possible

If you have Vista up and running and XP installed on a second hard drive then use the guide below to get XP to dual boot.

Dual Boot Trouble Shooting Guide / Vista Running

Thankyou team all sorted. Hear is how!
I followed the trouble shooting guide but this made no differance.

Then I looked at the boot.ini which when compared with mine and using the explanation notes underneath I was able to correct the rdisc which was pointing to disk 0 instead of disk 2. Copyed and pasted to vista and XP drives, ran the sysem loader again and rebooted. Fixed!

Thankyou very much for your help

great to hear, glad that you got it sorted out