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[ronpp Profile]

Help please. I had XP and Vista dual booting with VistaBoot Pro 3.1 just fine, but had to rebuild my Vista. Now I cannot dual boot. I have Vista on C and XP on D. I did the diagnostics and it didn't list XP, so I manually entered it, pointing to D. I did not have the boot.ini, NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM on the root of D. So I created the boot.ini file and extracted the other two from my XP SP2 CD in to D, so it now has all three files. However, when I try to boot into XP, I get a real fast screen with three lines that appear and disappear very quickly. I had to do it a couple of times to see what they said, but line 1 was invalid boot.ini, line 2 was something with c:\Windows and line 3 had NTDETECT missing. I tried putting the files on C and same issue. Here is my boot.ini file and detail from bootvista pro. Appreciate any help. It was working just fine before!

[boot loader]
timeout=2
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
displayorder {current}
{ntldr}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 2

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Vista
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {7dd32d31-d57d-11db-ae1c-947d07bca025}
nx OptIn
custom:47000005 301989892
3

Resume from Hibernate
---------------------
identifier {7dd32d31-d57d-11db-ae1c-947d07bca025}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winresume.exe
description Windows Resume Application
locale en-US
inherit {resumeloadersettings}
filepath \hiberfil.sys
pae No
debugoptionenabled No

Windows Memory Tester
---------------------
identifier {memdiag}
device partition=C:
path \boot\memtest.exe
description Windows Memory Diagnostic
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
badmemoryaccess Yes
custom:47000005 301989892
2

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {ntldr}
device partition=D:
path \ntldr
description Windows XP

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

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

RAM Defects
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identifier {badmemory}

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

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

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

[Grav!ty Profile]

Hi ronpp and welcome to PROnetworks. Please post a screenshot of your Disk Management and indicate what is on each drive/partition so that we can see where your boot.ini should be pointing.

[ronpp Profile]

Thanks. Here it is

http://img474.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... ledzu4.jpg

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

Moved here by me.........

[ronpp Profile]

Booted with the XP CD, logged into the recovery console and ran bootcfg /rebuild. It rebuilt the boot.ini and all is well.

[NT50 Profile]

Glad you got it going