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    Dual Boot issue-question

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by vivithemage, Nov 25, 2007.

  1. vivithemage

    vivithemage Notebook Evangelist

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    My laptop was using Vista Ultimate, and through Vista I repartitioned the drive to have a free sector of 47gig.

    I installed windows xp into that, XP works great, installed drivers. Now I see two drives (C being the Vista partition, and E being the XP one).

    My issue is that, I do not see a bootloader giving me options as to which one to boot to. Is there a simple way of doing this? I only have access to Windows XP right now, as Vista boot option does not show up.
     
    vivithemage, Nov 25, 2007
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    davexnet Newbie

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    davexnet, Nov 25, 2007
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    vivithemage Notebook Evangelist

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    If I run that, then what about my XP boot? haha
     
    vivithemage, Nov 25, 2007
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    slowhill Notebook Enthusiast

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    Have you tried EasyBCD? Like it's name intends to sound, it's supposed to be easy...but personally I haven't tried it out yet, so who knows. http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 Here's the link.
     
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    the vista fixboot procedure should take into account the XP partition and put
    it in the menu.
    Since xp was first, is XP in a primary partition and vista in a logical?
    (Use diskmgmt.msc from XP to check)
    If it's like this you should be in business.
     
    davexnet, Nov 26, 2007
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