Issues with dual-booting Vista and XP using G1s recovery CD

I'm having some trouble dual-booting with Vista and XP using the G1s recovery disk. Here is what I did...

Installed Windows XP (created two partitions 140GB(C) and 10GB (D) under XP setup) on the D drive.
Once setup finished successfully and XP launched successfully, I popped in the G1s recovery disk and restored Vista to the first partition (C drive). This was done successfully as well.

As I thought, I was not getting prompted to make OS choice by Vista bootloader at startups. So I downloaded EasyBCD and added Windows XP as an entry and pointed it to D drive.

Now the bootloader gives me the choice at startup, however...if i choose the Windows XP option, the bootloader gives me an error saying Windows failed to start. The error is related to file \NTLDR with Status 0x000000f.

I am still able to see the D partition just fine in Vista and Vista works flawlessly. I am not able to launch XP partition.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get XP partition to boot up successfully? Any help is appreciated and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.

 

Hi,

First of all, you have to install the oldest system first and later the more new one. In your case you should install XP at partition C: and Vista at Partition D:.
If you change this, xp will never work.
Ex.first win 98, then xp, then Vista.
The newest system is always backwards compatible with the previous installed system.

But you can have an other problem using the original recovery cd.
In some cases this recovery asks to install at one partition or in two partitions.
This means the cd split the drive in two partitions used as c: for system and D: for Data.
This is the only way to change settings.
With cd you can not install Vista at partition D: and have to use an other cd who is capable of choosing his partition. (OEM cd from Microsoft or full version cd from Microsoft).
Cd's who came with the notebook are modifyed and are not acting like a original cd of Microsoft.

 

You can install the OS's in any order the oldest doesnt have to be first. However my guess is that the recovery cd wiped out the install. I think the reovery disk wipes the whole HDD not sure on that tho. What you need to do is use the xp disk and use the recovery console to detect all windows installations. You will see two if they are both still there. One will be called WINDOWS wich is XP and one Windows wich is Vista.

 

If the recovery wiped out the install: a simple way to avoid that is to "recover to 1st partition only". If that doesn't work either, then follow the suggestion in post#2.

But if you see the Windows XP files and all on the 2nd partition, then you did not wipe it out, so I'd follow the suggestion already.