Dual boot issue - XP & Vista x64

yesterday I got fed up with the 30 second wait for windows to load the
defaul OS on my dual boot system so from within Vista I went to a system
menu and changed the dealy to 10 seconds. Today it failed to start (BCD
file error) so I followed instructions to insert the OS disk and do a
repair. Sure enought it said there was a problem with the boot file and
corrected it.

Problem now is that I can't access XP - it does not stop to offer me a
choice of sytems to load and if I go to the system menu to look at the boot
settings there is only one system (Vista) listed.

I tried using bcdedit from the command prompt but I get access denied
message.

How can i edit the BCD file to show both systems?

"Lorne" <> wrote in message
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> yesterday I got fed up with the 30 second wait for windows to load the
> defaul OS on my dual boot system so from within Vista I went to a system
> menu and changed the dealy to 10 seconds. Today it failed to start (BCD
> file error) so I followed instructions to insert the OS disk and do a
> repair. Sure enought it said there was a problem with the boot file and
> corrected it.
>
> Problem now is that I can't access XP - it does not stop to offer me a
> choice of sytems to load and if I go to the system menu to look at the
> boot settings there is only one system (Vista) listed.
>
> I tried using bcdedit from the command prompt but I get access denied
> message.
>
> How can i edit the BCD file to show both systems?

I jumped the gun here (after getting frustrated that bcdedit does not
work) - I found a useful free utility called easyBCD that does it all,
including making a backup which I guess I might need!

Open the command prompt window as administrator.

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:02:38 +0100, "Lorne"
<> wrote:

>yesterday I got fed up with the 30 second wait for windows to load the
>defaul OS on my dual boot system so from within Vista I went to a system
>menu and changed the dealy to 10 seconds. Today it failed to start (BCD
>file error) so I followed instructions to insert the OS disk and do a
>repair. Sure enought it said there was a problem with the boot file and
>corrected it.
>
>Problem now is that I can't access XP - it does not stop to offer me a
>choice of sytems to load and if I go to the system menu to look at the boot
>settings there is only one system (Vista) listed.
>
>I tried using bcdedit from the command prompt but I get access denied
>message.
>
>How can i edit the BCD file to show both systems?
>