Guest Sam Crawford Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 I'm trying to figure out how to dual boot Vista and XP. I have XP Professional x64 on disk 0, partion 1 and Vista Ultimate x64 on disk 1, partion 2. XP was installed first. After I installed Vista, it shows both Vista and XP in Vista's boot menu. When I try to go to XP, I get the error message that "NTLDR is missing" and error code 0x0000225. I tried using EasyBCD to change options but still can never boot into XP. Vista sees the drive it is installed on as "D" and XP on drive "K". Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Sam Xposted to x64 and Vista newsgroups.
Guest Carey Frisch [MVP] Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Re: Dual boot Vista & XP Try using this excellent utility: VistaBootPRO http://www.vistabootpro.org/ -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sam Crawford" wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to dual boot Vista and XP. I have XP Professional x64 on disk 0, partion 1 and Vista Ultimate x64 on disk 1, partion 2. XP was installed first. After I installed Vista, it shows both Vista and XP in Vista's boot menu. When I try to go to XP, I get the error message that "NTLDR is missing" and error code 0x0000225. I tried using EasyBCD to change options but still can never boot into XP. Vista sees the drive it is installed on as "D" and XP on drive "K". Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Sam Xposted to x64 and Vista newsgroups.
Guest Sam Crawford Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Re: Dual boot Vista & XP On 12-Aug-2007, "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote: > Try using this excellent utility: > > VistaBootPRO > http://www.vistabootpro.org/ Carey, I probably should have mentioned, I tried VistaBootPro as well. Thanks.
Guest Charlie Russel - MVP Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: Dual boot Vista & XP the problem is that somehow your boot files (ntldr and ntdetect.com ) are missing from the XP drive. You can copy the missing files back and you should be fine. They are on the XP x64 install CD. -- Charlie. http://msmvps.com/xperts64 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel "Sam Crawford" <sam@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:OIBWExT3HHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > On 12-Aug-2007, "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote: > >> Try using this excellent utility: >> >> VistaBootPRO >> http://www.vistabootpro.org/ > > Carey, > > I probably should have mentioned, I tried VistaBootPro as well. > > Thanks.
Guest John Barnes Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: Dual boot Vista & XP Are both drives IDE or SATA, or a combination? In Vista, which is designated your system drive (disk 1 partition 1?) and your boot drive (disk 1, partition 2?). If so and both drives are the same, to start, copy the ntldr ntdetect.com and boot.ini to both partitions on drive 1 and modify the boot.ini rdisk number if necessary. You can clean up the unnecessary copies later if you want to. "Sam Crawford" <sam@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:ed%23h2YT3HHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > I'm trying to figure out how to dual boot Vista and XP. > > I have XP Professional x64 on disk 0, partion 1 and Vista Ultimate x64 on > disk 1, partion 2. > > XP was installed first. > > After I installed Vista, it shows both Vista and XP in Vista's boot menu. > When I try to go to XP, I get the error message that "NTLDR is missing" > and > error code 0x0000225. > > I tried using EasyBCD to change options but still can never boot into XP. > Vista sees the drive it is installed on as "D" and XP on drive "K". > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance. > > Sam > > Xposted to x64 and Vista newsgroups.
Guest R. C. White Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: Dual boot Vista & XP Hi, Sam. HOW did you install Vista? Were both HDs connected at the time? Did you boot from the Vista DVD? Or did you boot into WinXP and then run Vista's Setup.exe from there? And which HDD is your current boot device? In Vista's Disk Management, which volumes are shown as System and Boot? The best way to add Vista to WinXP is to keep both HDs connected, with Disk 0 the boot device, while running Vista Setup. This way, Vista will preserve WinXP's startup files, while adding its own bootmgr file and \Boot folder to that Disk 0 partition 1, which will remain the System Partition. Vista will call that partition Drive D:, after assigning C: to its own boot folder (Disk 1 Partition 2 in your case). Whichever partition is shown as "System" in Vista's Disk Management is the location where NTLDR, etc., should be, along with a 512-byte file called Bootsect.BAK, which is a copy of the WinXP-style boot sector from the original Disk 0 Partition 1. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc@grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64) "Sam Crawford" <sam@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:ed#h2YT3HHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > I'm trying to figure out how to dual boot Vista and XP. > > I have XP Professional x64 on disk 0, partion 1 and Vista Ultimate x64 on > disk 1, partion 2. > > XP was installed first. > > After I installed Vista, it shows both Vista and XP in Vista's boot menu. > When I try to go to XP, I get the error message that "NTLDR is missing" > and > error code 0x0000225. > > I tried using EasyBCD to change options but still can never boot into XP. > Vista sees the drive it is installed on as "D" and XP on drive "K". > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance. > > Sam > > Xposted to x64 and Vista newsgroups.
Guest Sam Crawford Posted August 14, 2007 Posted August 14, 2007 Re: Dual boot Vista & XP Whichever partition is shown as "System" in Vista's Disk Management is the location where NTLDR, etc., should be, along with a 512-byte file called Bootsect.BAK, which is a copy of the WinXP-style boot sector from the original Disk 0 Partition 1. Thanks RC. I copied these files to the root directory of all partions and it works! I appreciate everyone's help.
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