There are lots of issues that develope when dual booting windows XP and Vista and or any other dual boot or multi boot combinations. This free bootloader is the absolute easiest way to go and it is a freebie...... Not to be spamming a piece of software in this forum...but I really feel that this will solve a lot of the dual booting issues that have arised .
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