Reinstalling Vista's boot manager?

[mattrobs]

Okay. So apparently when you install Vista on a second partition with XP on the first, Vista puts all the boot info on the XP partition!

So--without me knowing--I reformatted the XP partition and lost all the boot information.

My computer was unbootable. So I decided to reinstall XP. I did. And it booted. But the Vista partition is unbootable (because there's no boot info on it).

How do I reinstall the Vista boot manager? (And I kinda wiped off my Vista DVD-RW...)

[Mr. Gibs]

lol well get a vista dvd, put it in and then load the setup go to repair and then click repair boot.

Thats the only way i know :(

[crawling_nanny]

The program Vista boot pro -> http://www.vistabootpro.org/ allows you to do that very easily. Run the program in XP and choose either

1. Backup and Restore - http://www.vistabootpro.org/images/screenies/VBP3Restore.png

OR

2. Go to Bootloader and click Reinstall Vista Bootloader

[Mr. Gibs]

hes formatted the xp partition, so that will require a reinstall of xp lol

just go download the vista dvd and burn it again.

[mattrobs]

I have Vista digitally, I just have to re-download Nero and re-burn it. Ahh.

[Mr. Gibs]

better than reinstalling windows xp for like 1 program haha

[ProclaimDragon]

I use EasyBCD and it can easly control the Vista boot manager. It's working fine on my system. You can even install it on XP and use it from there.

[Dazed_N_Confused]

Hey,

Ok now what do you do if only your vista partition shows up and you need to get your xp to show? I had to reinstall xp, so i unplugged my vista drive installed xp, repluged my vista drive and it only booted to xp, so i used the vista repair function off the disk now i only get it to boot to vista..ahhh :no: Any suggestions?

[HistoricalNeowin]

I had a similar situation, couldn't work out how to fix it so in the end i took all the boot manager files off my TV which was setup to dual boot XP and Vista, then used the windows tool to edit the boot files to suit my system. Might be able to use that program to edit them too, i never tried, gave up on it.

[mattrobs]

Yeah, I gave up on it too, backed up, and just reformatted the whole damn drive. Apparently, the boot files are installed on the active partition, not necessarily the partition that actually has the OS on it :s.

[ProclaimDragon]

Cant you guys understand that EasyBCD can do all that for you? You can install it on Vista or XP, you can make it install the Vista booloader or remove it (installing the XP one, I think...).