Cant boot into XP after installing Vista
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Cant boot into XP after installing Vista
Hi all
Hope this hasnt been covered too much......I have had a little search around
I just created a new partition on my single hard drive so that I now have XP on one partition and vista installed on the other
Vista works fine and the D: drive (xp) is seen OK however when chossing the option on boot for earlier version of windows I just get a blank screen and nothing else happens
Heres the info from bcedit if it give any more info
Im completely lost...........Is there a step by step process to get the xp partition to boot
Ive hered of all sorts of stuff like use the xp recovery cd and various things but not sure which is the right option for me
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=D:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
displayorder {ntldr}
{current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Legacy OS Loader
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identifier {ntldr}
device partition=D:
path \ntldr
description Earlier Version of Windows
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {a4deeb95-d6a4-1242-8644-a66410914428}
nx OptIn
bootlog No
sos No
Thanks for any advise guys
I really dont want to format and reinstall two os again
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