[NT50]

Tought I had it working for a minute, but when i tried to boot to XP it told me it was missing ntldr, and wanted me to put in my XP installation cd t repair.

Snapshot of you Disk Manager please.

[Chuft]

Time to show my ignorance again. How do I get you a snap shot of that, and it'll be from the Vista OS of course?

[Grav!ty]

Time to show my ignorance again. How do I get you a snap shot of that, and it'll be from the Vista OS of course?

Chuft, you can copy ntldr from your XP CD and paste it to your system drive.

To take a screenshot of disk management, press Alt and Prt Sc keys and then open Paint at Start>Programs>Accessories and select Edit>Paste from the menu bar. Then save the screen as .jpg or .png and use www.imageshack.us to upload the image and copy one of the THUMBNAIL url's from the imageshack browser page and paste it here

[Chuft]

Lordy, this is a lot for a noob like me.

Strange thing is when I look in the XP drive ntldr is there.

[Grav!ty]

Try copying ntldr to your other partition (C: drive or maybe even D: drive) as well and see if that helps. It won't do any harm there and maybe that is where it's being looked for, for some or other reason.

[Chuft]

That seems to have done it. I want to thank you guys. I've tried several websites over the last few weeks, and a few different programs to get this to work. This site delivers. Thank you!!

[The Phoenix]

Glad to see PROnetworks could help you.

[Hapkido]

Okay.... I can now boot into both XP and Vista which are installed on their own separate HDD's. But I am still confused after reading post #1 w/ screenshots. I want to make 100% sure that I have things properly setup in regard to what folder/files are in each of the roots of the O/S. I copied the following folder and files to the root of BOTH XP and Vista. What I want to know is if any of them should be removed if they are redundant (not needed) or even harmful. Again both XP and Vista have ALL of the following items in their respective roots:

FOLDER:
Boot

FILES:
boot.ini
bootmgr
NETDETECT.COM
ntldr

[starter]

When I try to copy the Vista boot folder, BCD and BCD.log files won't copy because the files are open in another program. I can copy all other files but the two mentioned. What does this mean? Thanks for your help.

[mr335]

Do I need to open VistaBootPro in Vista or in XP?