Unplugged XP Drive for Vista Setup: Can't Dual Boot to XP
cannot fint boot/bootmng files.
I did as you said, switched the Xp to the system slot, moved Vista to D, booted in XP, went to windows explorer (set to see hidden files) and all I see in the main D window is:
Program Files
ProgramData
Users
Windows
Bootsect.BAK
config.sys
autoexec.bat
I found a bootmng file in D/windows/boot/PCAT is that it?
as for the BOOT folder, I see 3 possibilites
D/WINDOWS
D/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32
D/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/REMINST
what to do here?
Sam
puritykin wrote:When I try to boot XP I keep getting the same error
"Invalid boot.ini"
I think i did what You said.
Vista boots fine.
Hi puritykin and welcome to PROnetworks. Please copy and paste your boot.ini here and also a screenshot of your Disk Management. We should be able to figure out what changes you need to make to boot.ini
Great, thanks.
boot.ini
Computer manage.
boot.ini
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Computer manage.
It looks like your boot.ini should read:
Hope that gets you sorted out. I think you are going to have to create a new boot.ini file using notepad which you can do by right clicking the desktop and select New>Text document. Copy and paste the above into it and rename the text document to boot.ini and then copy or cut and paste to the root of your VISTA drive which is your system drive.
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boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Hope that gets you sorted out. I think you are going to have to create a new boot.ini file using notepad which you can do by right clicking the desktop and select New>Text document. Copy and paste the above into it and rename the text document to boot.ini and then copy or cut and paste to the root of your VISTA drive which is your system drive.
I tried following the instructions but had problems. I copied the boot folder from Vista to XP-Home as the instructions state and installed VistaBootPro. I selected "reinstall the Vista bootloader" but didn't see the Vista OS when I went to load the legacy OS. So I quit at that point. When trying to boot into XP-Home now I get a disk read error. Can't fix with Symantec Rescue Disk says that "q12200.sys has a 8192 error at line 3529 in D:\xpsp1\base\boot\setup\setup c." My XP-home CD runs but fails when running 'R' for repair. My Xp-Home is now toast! Guess I'll have to try and re-install XP. Any suggestions?
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