Please Help - Vista and XP Dual Boot[FINALLY RESOLVED]

by **silent bob** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:30 am

sorry to be a pain but were do I copy them to?

by **silent bob** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:38 am

sorry to be a pain but how do I do this?

by **NT50** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:25 am

select the files, click edit, click copy, goto the drive and root directory, click edit, click paste. The file to rename, click file, click rename

by **silent bob** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:42 am

Sorry to go on but I know how to copy files I just dont know which is the root directory on the Vista drive!

Also when I try to copy (boot.ini.backup) it says that the file may become unstable. Do I ignore this! Thanks everyone for your help!

by **JabbaPapa** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:43 am

Ignore it

by **silent bob** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:00 pm

Which is the root directory! I tried the system32 folder but that did not work!

by **silent bob** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:44 pm

Can anybody help?

I am getting sick of having to go ino the BIOS to dual boot!

I have noticed that when I am in Vista, the C: drive is for Vista and the D: drive is for XP and vice versa although I dont believe thas makes a difference!

It must be to do with these files being missing!

by **yeshuas** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:23 pm

To copy the files to the root directory simply click on the C drive and that is the root directory, and the D drive is also a root directory.
for example structure looks like this

C:\
windows
program files
Office

after clicking and copying the files, highlight C:\ only and then click paste

do the same on the D drive

by **kermalou** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:48 pm

i had the same problem, copied the files from C:\ to D:\ solved it.

thanks for the help.

by **silent bob** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:12 am

I reinstalled XP as I made a mess of it and I am having the same problem!

Currently Vista comes on as my main operating system with the boot menu! However XP does not work, it says no boot manager or something like that! I moved the ntldr and nt detect files into the C: root!

However I can not find the boot.ini file!

Also if I remove vista bootloader using the tool XP starts up!

This is driving me crazy now and I am in desperate need of help!

P.S. The ntldr and ntdetect files are in D:\Windows\ServicePackFiles = not sure if thats a problem but that is were they ended up after a clean install!

I will be eternally grateful if anyone can take the time to help me :notworthy

Thanks for all the previous help! ^*^

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