Resoring XP Boot Ability?

[Guest Ross M. Greenberg]

I had a dual boot system: XP Pro/Vista Ultimate. Then I ran some buggy partitioning software. Fortunately I had full backups on an external USB drive. I restored the Vista partition without a problem. The data files on the XP Pro partition were restored as well. But the bootable portion of XP Pro didn't make it. When the system boots I get the choice of booting from Windows Vista (the default) or the "Earlier Version of Windows" which is not bootable.

 

What do I need to restore the dual-boot capabilities?

 

Thanks!

 

Ross

[Guest Mark]

Re: Resoring XP Boot Ability?

 

What's the error message you get when trying to boot into XP?

 

"Ross M. Greenberg" <greenber@bellsouth.net> wrote in message

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I had a dual boot system: XP Pro/Vista Ultimate. Then I ran some buggy

partitioning software. Fortunately I had full backups on an external USB

drive. I restored the Vista partition without a problem. The data files on

the XP Pro partition were restored as well. But the bootable portion of XP

Pro didn't make it. When the system boots I get the choice of booting from

Windows Vista (the default) or the "Earlier Version of Windows" which is not

bootable.

 

What do I need to restore the dual-boot capabilities?

 

Thanks!

 

Ross