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    Help! DV9500t dual boot dissappearing menu screen

    Discussion in 'HP' started by PATSCRU, Jul 31, 2008.

  1. PATSCRU

    PATSCRU Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey all,

    I have a dv9500t which i used as a xp/vista dual boot machine for months thanks to the wonderful stickies here. However, I encountered a problem when i tried to reformat my xp/vista partition.

    I had 2 partitions on the same drive, one partition with XP and the other with Vista. When i would boot up, there would be an option screen that asked me if i wanted to boot to

    "Older version of windows" (XP)
    or "Windows Vista".

    I would choose either option and it would go through the booting process for that OS. However, I just reformatted my XP drive, but kept the same partitions and left the Vista partition untouched, and that OS selection menu screen is now gone. Instead, my lappie boots straight to XP.

    Does anyone know how I can get that OS selection screen back? I checked my drive, and my vista partition is there still untouched, but i'm unable to boot to it because the post screen doesn't give me the option.

    Help! :confused:
     
    PATSCRU, Jul 31, 2008
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Pop in the Vista disc, and run a repair....
    It will automatically detect that the vista bootloader is corrupt and will try to repair it..!!

    (If it doesn't, go to the menu where you have loads of options to run a repair on....and click on Repair Startup..!!)

    Now you will boot straight into Vista....!!

    Download EasyBCD....and enter a new boot entry and assign that to XP....!!
     
    Andy, Jul 31, 2008
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  3. PATSCRU

    PATSCRU Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sounds great, I'll give it a try....Thank you kind sir.
     
    PATSCRU, Jul 31, 2008
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