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Hey folks. Ive had an interesting issue trying to dual boot xp 32 and vista64. I began by partitioning my laptop HD in a 200gb partition for vista, and a 100gb for XP. I installed Vista first and got it all set up. I then installed XP on the other partition. Once that installed I was not given an option to boot into vista. luckily easybcd allows me to easily restore the master boot record without having to boot with cd's, so I can toggle it back and forth using the program, but Id still rather have the dialog. Ive tried booting with both cd's in hopes that there would be some sort of recovery option but theres are not any. I also fiiddled with bcdedit in vista and added the lines manually via cmd", but that seems to do the same thing that easybcd does. It shows te dialog, but when i select XP, it says that ntldr is missing or corrupt, and thats about as far as I have been able to go :-( Any suggestions?
Name: Atlasprime Date: July 28, 2009 at 11:28:55 Pacific
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Yea, I used it in Vista. And yea, i realized at the end of the night that this prolly wouldnt ahve happened if XP was installed first :-/ O well, Ill just switch by swaping the boot records when I need to lol
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