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Old 09-10-2007, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by William_Wilson View Post
I am going to ask the same thing from you:
Could you post the partition label vista is on, and your bcdedit (boot.ini) file from in vista?
My partions are set up as such:

Disk 1
C: (XP Partition) - Primary Partition
D: (Vista Partition) - Primary Partition
G: (Extra) - Logical Partition

Disk 2
H: (Backup) - Logical Partition

I have noticed though that when I boot into Vista my Vista partition is listed as being the C drive and XP is listed as the D drive, but I assume that only has something to do with the fact that I booted into Vista. When I boot into XP it looks as listed above.

My bcdedit.exe looks like this:

Windows Boot Manager
___________________
identifier________________ {bootmgr}
device _________________ partition=D:
description______________ Windows Boot Manager
locale __________________ en-US
inherit _________________ {globalsettings}
default _________________ {current}
displayorder_____________ {current}
_______________________{ntldr}
toolsdisplayorder ________ {memdiag}
timeout ________________ 30

Windows Boot Loader
__________________
identifier _______________ {current}
device _________________ partition=C:
path __________________ \Windows\syste32\winload.exe
description _____________ Microsoft Windows Vista
locale _________________ en-US
inherit _________________ {bootlodersettings}
osdevice _______________ patition=C:
systemroot ____________ \Windows
resumeobject ___________ {cf5c333b-5d4c-11dc-9ea2-ebe1296eeddc}
nx ____________________ OptIN

Windows Legacy OS Loader
_______________________
identifier ________________ {ntldr}
device _________________ partition=D:
path ___________________ \ntldr
description _____________ Microsoft Windows XP


When I first edited this file I had put XP to boot from partition C:, but this caused XP to not be bootable from the startup options. When I noticed that Windows Explorer listed my XP partition as D: while booted into Vista I changed my boot.ini file to reflect this and was then again able to dual boot. The only problem I'm getting is the NTLDR missing error and even that goes away if I have a system disk in my CD drive. Hope this information is useful.




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