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[docfear Profile]

hello

i had a drive with XP pro(C:), now i installed a new drive with Vista on it
this one became (C:) after i added my xp drive and it became D:
now when i play with Vista Boot Pro, i have both choices at start, but when i hit old XP, it reboots, (vista boots OK)

so is this possible, do i need to play with Legacy Editor or something
can any1 help me out

thanks in advance

Doc ^*^

[NT50 Profile]

I moved this here to the Vista Chat and Support. You will find a lot of post here about dual boot issues. Within Vista take a snapshot of your disk manager and post it here along with the entries in your VistaBootPro. Just do not go to swapping boot drives etc. Stay with what you have and lets work from there.

[docfear Profile]

ok great, here is my VistabootPro specs:

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Windows Boot Manager
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identifier              {bootmgr}
device                  partition=C:
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {globalsettings}
default                 {current}
resumeobject            {c3b9e6cf-ca8e-11db-a1d7-e769cd2380ab}
displayorder            {current}
                        {ntldr}
toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}
timeout                 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {current}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Microsoft Windows Vista
locale                  en-US
loadoptions             DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
inherit                 {bootloadersettings}
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {c3b9e6cf-ca8e-11db-a1d7-e769cd2380ab}
nx                      OptIn
custom:47000005         301989892
                        3

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier              {ntldr}
device                  partition=F:
path                    \ntldr
description             Windows XP Pro
custom:47000005         301989892
                        6

and for my drives:

Disk0= 300GB (partition C:)
Disk1= 114.50GB (partition F: and G:)
Cdrom0=DVD (D:)
Cdrom1=cdrom (E:)

thanks

Doc

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

Are these both SATA HDD's? And when you said you "played with" VBPro, what exactly did you do? FYI, it is not wise to change drive lettering in VBPro based on drive letter assignments in another OS you were booted into....... possibly I'm interpreting your issue incorrectly. Please post the Disk Mgmt screenshot as well; thanks

[NT50 Profile]

You mentioned in first post about XP being D:
you VBP is pointing to drive F:

Kevin is right we need a Disk Management snapshot to determine what is going on. We are having a conflict of information at the moment.

[docfear Profile]

ok guys, heres my pic,

1-for the D: part (it use to be D:, now its F:)
2-when i say i played with the soft, i mean i did RUN DIAGNOSTIC and loaded the new vista bootloader, thats it
3- yes i have 3 sata drives (2 Sata(160x2) raid and 1 sata(120))

thanks again for the help

Doc

[NT50 Profile]

Within Vista delete your entry for Legacy OS in VBP.

Recreate the entry pointing to drive F:

Reboot and tell me what happens.

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

Ok, I'm a little confused about the (D)F: thing going on there in disk mgmt.......... is that drive assigned BOTH letters? Or is the (D) part of the description?

[JabbaPapa Profile]

Looks like it's part of the name of the volume

[docfear Profile]

Ok, I'm a little confused about the (D)F: thing going on there in disk mgmt.......... is that drive assigned BOTH letters? Or is the (D) part of the description?

yes its only part of description, did not change it yet

so i will try and delete legacy loader (think i tried that, but will do it again)
i'll post back later

thanks

Doc