Repair dual boot windows xp

Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? I wouldn't have offered it blindly unless I felt that you would be capable of deciding if it fit your present needs. I was just considering that if Vista took over the bootloder code that follows the MBR IPL or the code on the first sector of the boot drive, in case multi disks are involved as they are for you , that might be why the XP install isn't detected.

That's all conjecture so proceed with caution. It might pay to ask some?? Good luck. I guess it never has in my mind Since last posting I have run fixboot and fixmbr to no effect and formatted the Vista partition, yet the install CD still sees no Windows OS. I don't really want to format - that's 1 week's work full time minimum to get everything loaded and tweaked with all the hassle of umpteen dozen activations and reg.

My current idea Update my ASR backup and then run ASR which will format the disk and reload everything as it was, hopefully without inheriting the quirks that the current install possesses. I have Acronis images of the drive as a fall back if all goes pear shaped, but I rather think that the problem lies in the MBR. What do you guys think? As a side note - does the number of partitions have a significant effect on performance? Hi Pete, Sounds as though you are no longer running Vista.

If that's the case, have you removed Vista? Pretty good guide here. I think once Vista is gone, along with it's bootloader files, the XP cd should see the XP installation. Sidenote FYI Removed the Vista installation folders and boot. While playing with Partition Magic a while back I inadvertantly wiped formatted the contents of the hard disk 1 C: partition.

Hard disk 2 installation being separate has it's own boot. I am again using hard disk 1 as the primary boot disk Vista bootloader is gone resided on C: with 98 installation and XP has since written a few system files to C: to keep my boot. Hi Dave. OK - I took a deep breathe and tried brute force Killbox to delete bootmgr from C:, but it failed to delete on reboot. Ankit, how did you initially install both operating systems to dual boot? Before you installed Windows 7 on D, did you remove the previous installation?

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