Hello,
I recently had to perform a repair install on WinXP Pro SP2 on a system which is dual boot with Vista Business 32-bit.
Since the repair install, the dual boot option menu no longer appears. I assume the repair install overwrote the relevant boot files on the C:\ drive.
How can I restore these options?
Regards,
Rob.
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Hi peridian,
I had a similar problem after resizing a partition once - I solved it by using EasyBCD to recreate the boot information for Vista from within the XP operating system.
Good luck!
JE
Well, now the problems reversed.
I got the problem resolved by using the Windows Vista disk as a boot disk. Instead of doing the install of Vista, there's an option for repair. In here is an option for repairing startup files. This restores the dual boot options.
I got both WinXP and Vista back again, and then XP got corrupted so I had to do a full reinstall of XP after all (sigh).
Same problem occurred, the reinstall removed the dual boot options, so only XP booted. Used the Vista disk again, and it said it had fixed the issue, like before.
Only this time, it has not restored the dual boot, and has instead ignored XP completely, so that now only Vista boots.
Soooooo, the question now is: how do I restore Windows XP boot options after a repair of the boot sector by Vista???
Gotta love Windows!
Rob.
Well, now the problems reversed.
I got the problem resolved by using the Windows Vista disk as a boot disk. Instead of doing the install of Vista, there's an option for repair. In here is an option for repairing startup files. This restores the dual boot options.
I got both WinXP and Vista back again, and then XP got corrupted so I had to do a full reinstall of XP after all (sigh).
Same problem occurred, the reinstall removed the dual boot options, so only XP booted. Used the Vista disk again, and it said it had fixed the issue, like before.
Only this time, it has not restored the dual boot, and has instead ignored XP completely, so that now only Vista boots.
Soooooo, the question now is: how do I restore Windows XP boot options after a repair of the boot sector by Vista???
Gotta love Windows!
Rob.
you can use VistaBoot Pro to edit the BCD option. it will show you all the installations automatically.
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