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[JuanMa Profile]

Hello there,

After getting very tired by reading too many posts that didn't help, I've finally decided to send you my issue with all the related information, so you can give me a fast fix.

I have a laptop with Vista preinstalled. Then I installed Windows XP Professional in another partition in the same drive. Afterwards, I intalled VistaBootPRO 3.3 but I still can only boot in XP!

The three files ntldr,NTDETECT.COM and boot ini are in the boot partition (XP) root.
The boot folders have been copied to the right places (that's my hope) into the XP partition too.
Next you see my drives layout:

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The boot.ini file follows:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Ant these are the BCD Registry settings (all) I can read on VistaBootPRO:

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale es-ES
inherit {globalsettings}
default {default}
resumeobject {c4cc73e9-f44f-11dc-9cc6-001a80279728}
displayorder {default}
{4fb9f480-e8be-11dd-9d80-c13cff9e77b5}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {default}
device partition=D:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
locale es-ES
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoveryenabled Yes
bootdebug No
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {c4cc73e9-f44f-11dc-9cc6-001a80279728}
nx OptIn
pae ForceDisable
vga Yes
quietboot No
sos No
debug No

Resume from Hibernate
---------------------
identifier {c4cc73e9-f44f-11dc-9cc6-001a80279728}
device partition=D:
path \Windows\system32\winresume.exe
description Windows Resume Application
locale es-ES
inherit {resumeloadersettings}
filedevice partition=D:
filepath \hiberfil.sys
pae Yes
debugoptionenabled No

Windows Memory Tester
---------------------
identifier {memdiag}
device partition=D:
path \boot\memtest.exe
description Herramienta de diagnstico de memoria de Windows
locale es-ES
inherit {globalsettings}
badmemoryaccess Yes

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {4fb9f480-e8be-11dd-9d80-c13cff9e77b5}
device partition=C:
path \ntldr
description Microsoft Windows XP Professional

EMS Settings
------------
identifier {emssettings}
bootems Yes

Debugger Settings
-----------------
identifier {dbgsettings}
debugtype Serial
debugport 1
baudrate 115200

RAM Defects
-----------
identifier {badmemory}

Global Settings
---------------
identifier {globalsettings}
inherit {dbgsettings}
{emssettings}
{badmemory}

Boot Loader Settings
--------------------
identifier {bootloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}

Resume Loader Settings
----------------------
identifier {resumeloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}

Setup Ramdisk Options
---------------------
identifier {ramdiskoptions}
description Ramdisk options
ramdisksdidevice partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
ramdisksdipath \boot\boot.sdi

Have you now enough information to help me fix this?
Thank you very much.

[yeshuas]

Start Vista Boot Pro

click on the System Bootloader button

put a check in the Windows Vista Bootloader and All Drives, then click on the Install Bootloader button

Once that is done run Diagnostics and then click on the Manage OS Entries and you should see that you have entries for XP and Vista, the one that is blue is the one it will default to when you boot, and to get to the other OS you will have to arrow down or up to, in order to boot to it.

[JuanMa Profile]

I'm sorry to say that, but your proposed solution didn't work. I'm still booting to Windows XP with no other options (Even having forced "install Vista bootloader").

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

I did not read that you have tried this, and it may work.....

From XP, go to your Vista drive (D I believe) and copy the ENTIRE contents (Folder included) of the \BOOT folder; copy this to the root of your XP Drive (C from what it appears).

Try again with VistaBootPRO and see if that fixes it

[JuanMa Profile]

Hey, this is not a simple job! First of all I found the \boot folders were already in both drives' roots, but they had been hidden (even having selected "show hidden and system files" in Windows Explorer).

Now I'm not sure I could have made a mistake, because I copied the entire boot folder from the Windows folder (there is another one -smaller- in the Windows\System32 folder) into the root (I did that because at the moment I coudn't see any boot folder in the root).

The fact is, I'm still booting to XP only.

So what can I do now?

And thank you again.

[yeshuas]

:no

Hey, this is not a simple job! First of all I found the \boot folders were already in both drives' roots, but they had been hidden (even having selected "show hidden and system files" in Windows Explorer).

Now I'm not sure I could have made a mistake, because I copied the entire boot folder from the Windows folder (there is another one -smaller- in the Windows\System32 folder) into the root (I did that because at the moment I coudn't see any boot folder in the root).

The fact is, I'm still booting to XP only.

So what can I do now?

And thank you again.

You copied the Boot folder from the Windows\system32 folder to both or the drives root directories?

If you copied it to the root directory of your Vista drive did it overwrite the one that was already there?

[JuanMa Profile]

No, I don't think I overwrote the original one in D:\ (the system didn't grant me access). I just added some missing folders I had in D:\Windows\Boot (not the ones in D:\Windows\System32\Boot).

Now looking at C:\Boot I can see these contents:
DVD\
Fonts\
PCAT\
PXE\
BCD
BCD (.txt)

Is there anything I can do now or there's no turning back?

[yeshuas]

The boot folder should have a lot more than that in it

[JuanMa Profile]

OK, I'll go into deeper detail.

Contents of C:\Boot
DVD\
Fonts\
PCAT\
PXE\
BCD
BCD (.txt)

Contents of C:\Boot\DVD
PCAT\

Contents of C:\Boot\DVD\PCAT
es-ES\
boot.sdi
BCD
etfsboot.com

Contents of C:\Boot\DVD\PCAT\es-ES
bootfix.bin

Contents of C:\Boot\Fonts
chs_boot.ttf
cht_boot.ttf
jpn_boot.ttf
kor_boot.ttf
wgl4_boot.ttf

Contents of C:\Boot\PXE
cs-CZ\
da-DK\
de-DE\
el-GR\
en-US\
es-ES\
fi-FI\
fr-FR\
hu-HU\
it-IT\
ja-JP\
ko-KR\
nb-NO\
nl-NL\
pl-PL\
pt-BR\
pt-PT\
ru-RU\
sv-SE\
tr-TR\
zh-CN\
zh-HK\
zh-TW\
(Inside all the above folders I can see this filename:
bootmgr.exe.mui)

Contents of C:\Boot\PCAT
The same as C:\Boot\PXE, and besides ...
bootmgr
memtest.exe

Are you still missing something or is that all it must be?

[yeshuas]

Ok that looks better, it must be the difference between Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate or other versions.

At any rate replace the Boot folder that you copied to XP from the Windows\System32 with the one from the Vista root directory