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    Dual booting with HP DV 9000 laptop questions

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ace50225, Jan 27, 2008.

  1. ace50225

    ace50225 Newbie

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    Ok I finally found all my drivers for XP, this laptop was set up with Vista installed. I wanted to do a dual boot off 1 hard drive and I managed to do this as well. The problem that I'm having is when I first boot up and get a choice of Vista and XP Pro. I select XP Pro and then I have to select from 2 entries of XP Pro. The upper 1 works but the lower 1 does not work. I check the boot file in XP and only shows 1 boot. I then checked in the system configuration, under boot.ini and it shows 2 entries. How do I fix this little problem? Is this problem in the Vista side? If so how do I edit the 2 entries on the Vista side?


    Thanks for your help
     
    ace50225, Jan 27, 2008
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  2. walterdt3

    walterdt3 Notebook Consultant

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    To edit the Vista boot files, download a free program: VistaBootPro. I have version 3.3, which works fine with both the 64Bit and 32 Bit version of Vista. I don't know if the issue you have is a Vista boot problem, but running this will tell you and allow you to fix it if it is.
     
    walterdt3, Jan 27, 2008
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  3. timtravel42

    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    use EasyBCD to edit the Vista or XP Bootloader

    its referring directly to the ntldr file right?
    what does the upper and lower entry say?
     
    timtravel42, Jan 28, 2008
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