i had xp pro installed on my 250gb sata2 drive its in three partitions i bought a new hdd 320gb partitioned it and installed vista yltimate now my xp wont boot and i noticed some drive letters are chchanged the partition that xp pro is on is a logical while the other two partitions on the same hdd are primary
how do i fix this i need the xp pro partitoon to be primary im sure
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| Post #1 May 13 2007, 11:43 | |
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| Post #2 May 14 2007, 04:27 | |
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Neowinian³ Group: Registered Posts: 330 Joined: 5-January 03 From: Vancouver, BC Member No.: 21,241
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| Post #3 May 14 2007, 04:30 | |
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asphyxia8489.net  Group: Registered Posts: 4,445 Joined: 16-September 06 From: England Member No.: 180,771
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Yeah the XP Partition NEEDs to be Primary. You can use something like Partition Magic to fix that
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| Post #4 May 14 2007, 04:33 | |
Neowinian³ Group: Registered Posts: 404 Joined: 24-February 04 Member No.: 48,589
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Install easy bcd and then you can point the new bootloader in vista and add your old xp install. The you will have an option to boot to it.
http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/easybcd-16-released/ It works trust me. Goodluck |
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| Post #5 May 20 2007, 23:28 | |
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Neowinian³ Group: Registered Posts: 330 Joined: 5-January 03 From: Vancouver, BC Member No.: 21,241
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ive tried using easy bcd and i get the bootloader at startup but when i try n load xp it doesnt boot but vista will...! i dont have partition magic is there another way to set my xp partition to primary?
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| Post #6 May 21 2007, 12:42 | |
Mostly Harmless...  Group: Registered Posts: 2,258 Joined: 23-April 05 From: The Great Middle East Member No.: 107,016
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EasyBCD adds a XP entry to the bootloader that will work only if your boot.ini is in order. Double check that.
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Neowinian Wise One  Group: +Subscriber² Posts: 4,254 Joined: 6-January 04 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 44,573
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I did a similar thing except the other way around, had Vista Home Premium on one HDD and installed XP Home to the second HDD, after that Vista wouldn't boot, only XP. I end up using a combination of the recovery console and EasyBCD and it works a charm. Another program you might want to consider is VistaBootPRO same thing as EasyBCD, however, if EasyBCD didn't work this might, Good luck!
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| Post #8 May 22 2007, 02:04 | |
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Neowinian  Group: Registered Posts: 88 Joined: 15-October 05 Member No.: 135,221
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If you can boot to Vista, you don't have to use a third party program to set your XP partition as primary. you can do it in Vista's disk management console.
If you're up to it, you might also want to see this guide for dual booting: Multi-boot Vista and XP with Grub. Grub4Dos is very versatile. This post has been edited by spacesurfer: May 22 2007, 02:22 |
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| Post #9 May 22 2007, 19:13 | |
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Mostly Harmless... Group: Registered Posts: 2,258 Joined: 23-April 05 From: The Great Middle East Member No.: 107,016
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EasyBCD contains an implementation of Grub4Dos called NeoGrub.
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| Post #10 May 24 2007, 23:32 | |
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Neowinian³ Group: Registered Posts: 330 Joined: 5-January 03 From: Vancouver, BC Member No.: 21,241
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can i use vistas disk management to set my xp partition to primary i cant seem to find the option when i right click on that partition...also where or how do i find my boot.ini file to check it? i cant find it on any disks...
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| Post #11 May 25 2007, 01:34 | |
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Neowinian Group: Registered Posts: 88 Joined: 15-October 05 Member No.: 135,221
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Sorry, I made a mistake in what I said earlier. I don't think you can change a partition type from extended to primary. What I meant to say is make the partition active, not primary. You can make the partition active by going to Computer Management --> Disk Management --> right click on your partition and select mark partition as active.
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| Post #12 May 25 2007, 21:42 | |
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Neowinian³ Group: Registered Posts: 330 Joined: 5-January 03 From: Vancouver, BC Member No.: 21,241
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this is what my boot.ini looks like
whats wrong here? There is currently 2 OS(s) installed on your system. The current boot timeout is: 30 Default OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Entry 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Microsoft Windows Vista BCD ID: {current} Boot Drive: C: Windows Drive: C: System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe Windows Directory: \Windows Entry 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Microsoft Windows XP BCD ID: {ntldr} Boot Drive: E: System Bootloader: \ntldr |
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| Post #13 May 27 2007, 19:21 | |
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Neowinian³ Group: Registered Posts: 330 Joined: 5-January 03 From: Vancouver, BC Member No.: 21,241
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| Post #14 May 27 2007, 19:33 | |
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Resident Elite  Group: Registered Posts: 1,120 Joined: 13-April 06 From: From: North London, UK Living: Coventry, UK Member No.: 163,350
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For some reason for me I had to set Vista and XP's Boot Drives to C: (even though its the x drive on vista and i on xp) so you might want to try to change around xp's drive letters.
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| Post #15 May 28 2007, 00:22 | |
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Neowinian³ Group: Registered Posts: 330 Joined: 5-January 03 From: Vancouver, BC Member No.: 21,241
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u mean change the drive letter in windows so they are both set to C: or u mean on EASYBCD or VISYABOOTPRO?
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