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Dual Boot Troubles!

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Name: X3A
Date: April 19, 2007 at 01:44:23 Pacific
OS: Vista
CPU/Ram: athlon 64 3200+/2gb ddr40
Product: Custom
Comment:

I had Vista installed on my 160gb hdd, then did a clean install of xp on my 200gb hdd, boot manager never picks them both up. i used vista disc to get vista booting up as default but now i cant get XP running again. any help?? i want boot manager to pick up vista and xp and give the option of the two!!

AMD Athlon 64-Bit 3200+
2GB Dual Channel DDR400 Ram
GeForce 7900GT
nForce 4 Sli
160GB+200GB HDD



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Response Number 1
Name: Mr, X (by Robin86)
Date: April 19, 2007 at 02:03:43 Pacific
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XP has to be installed first.



Response Number 2
Name: X3A
Date: April 19, 2007 at 02:37:14 Pacific
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Reply:

nah it doesnt, ive got it working now, found a program (EasyBCD) to add the xp entry into the vista boot manager =D thanks anyway

AMD Athlon 64-Bit 3200+
2GB Dual Channel DDR400 Ram
GeForce 7900GT
nForce 4 Sli
160GB+200GB HDD



Response Number 3
Name: XpUser
Date: April 19, 2007 at 04:13:22 Pacific
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Reply:

Alright then why isn't EasyBCD working as claimed?

i_XpUser



Response Number 4
Name: X3A
Date: April 19, 2007 at 04:38:21 Pacific
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Reply:

it is, it worked perfectly, i'm running the two OS's perfectly now

AMD Athlon 64-Bit 3200+
2GB Dual Channel DDR400 Ram
GeForce 7900GT
nForce 4 Sli
160GB+200GB HDD



Response Number 5
Name: XpUser
Date: April 19, 2007 at 04:43:01 Pacific
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Reply:

Great! Have fun multibooting :-)

i_XpUser



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