XP & Vista dual boot Chickahing <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/2/2008 8:27:37 PM I use my PC to dual boot between XP and Vista, with XP being on a separate hard disk to Vista. XP is on drive c:, I have a d: data hard disk and Vista is on e:. Up until Sunday morning my XP installation was running fine, when suddenly I received an error while running a program, and found I couldn't restart it. However, during a restart, I was abruptly informed the c:\windows\system32\config\system was "missing or corrupt", and to cut a long story short, I reinstalled XP. The problem now is that the dual boot menu is missing. I've read I have to somehow get to the system recovery options, select a command prompt and enter: bootrec.exe /fixmbr bootrec.exe /fixboot Is this correct? I'm afraid of losing my XP installation again if I input the wrong commands. I know Vista is there waiting for me but just can't reach it. I'd be extremely grateful if someone could give me some steps on how to get it going again. Thanks in advance Rob. -- Chickahing

Re: XP & Vista dual boot mansrm81 <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/2/2008 8:48:51 PM Do this 1st http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html Then do this to dual boot. Download EasyBCD 'Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies' (http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1) [image: http://www.vistax64.com/members/mansrm81-albums-asdf-picture184-untitled.jpg] -- mansrm81 If you think I helped you fix your problem give me some rep :D.

Re: XP & Vista dual boot Chickahing <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/2/2008 8:59:53 PM Thanks mansrm81 for the quick reply. I'll give it a go and keep you posted. I'm sure it won't end up with your rep in tatters ;) -- Chickahing

Re: XP & Vista dual boot mansrm81 <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/2/2008 9:03:47 PM Forgot to say you need to click on add/remove entries then you can do what is need done. -- mansrm81 If you think I helped you fix your problem give me some rep :D.

Re: XP & Vista dual boot andy <bogusaddress[ at ]bogusaddress.123> 10/2/2008 9:12:12 PM If you formatted the system partition, then you wiped out Vista's Boot Manager. If not, then the command would be bootsect /nt60 sys to rewrite the boot sector that runs Vista boot manager. On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:27:37 -0500, Chickahing <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > >I use my PC to dual boot between XP and Vista, with XP being on a >separate hard disk to Vista. XP is on drive c:, I have a d: data hard >disk and Vista is on e:. > >Up until Sunday morning my XP installation was running fine, when >suddenly I received an error while running a program, and found I >couldn't restart it. However, during a restart, I was abruptly informed >the c:\windows\system32\config\system was "missing or corrupt", and to >cut a long story short, I reinstalled XP. > >The problem now is that the dual boot menu is missing. I've read I >have to somehow get to the system recovery options, select a command >prompt and enter: > >bootrec.exe /fixmbr >bootrec.exe /fixboot > >Is this correct? I'm afraid of losing my XP installation again if I >input the wrong commands. I know Vista is there waiting for me but just >can't reach it. I'd be extremely grateful if someone could give me some >steps on how to get it going again. > >Thanks in advance > >Rob.