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Old June 12th, 2009, 08:52 AM
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[HELP] Vista OS Disappeared

I have 3 different Drivers, On 1 of them I have Vista Installed (e.g 'D:/').
Today, After I installed XP on DIFFERENT drive (e.g. 'E:/'), i can no longer chose my Vista OS from the OS Boot Menu.

Where the hell did my vista OS gone?
How do I chose to boot Vista again?

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Old June 12th, 2009, 09:15 AM
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Boot off the Vista DVD and run a startup repair and see if that helps. XP uses boot.ini file and that killed the bootloader file Vista uses.

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Old June 12th, 2009, 09:39 AM
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Bingo! thanks mate

btw: it did solve the problem, but now I cant chose XP :P

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Old June 12th, 2009, 09:43 AM
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Hahahahah, well you didn't want it to work 100% did you?

Usually when installing XP and Vista together, you need to install XP, and then Vista. Given the current situation I am not sure how you'd go about solving this w/out wiping the drive and starting fresh.

I am guessing now that the boot.ini file is missing....geeesh. You can try booting off the XP disc and going into recovery console. From there you could run fixboot, but I have the feeling that Vista will magically disappear again.

Is it possible for you to start fresh or not? Maybe someone else remembers how to do this, I don't.

edit: Try this link. I'm not sure about the source, but a quick read through it looks legitimate.

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Thanks! I`ll try that.

Edit: It did work! now I can see both of my OS's!

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