Dual booting Vista and xp - but a twist

Hello, and thanks to all who read/respond
Background info
vista installed on drive
xp installed on drive
dual booted just fine

A week ago my main drive stopped working - a manufacturer fault. I los
everything on the drive
I replaced the main drive 1, installed vista 64 again. Drive 2 wa
unaffected
I would like to dual boot so that I can run xp again, but don't kno
exactly how to set that up again
XP is already (I assume) on drive 2. There is no boot.ini on Drive
now

I know there are tutorials on how to set up dual booting, but I don'
want to re-install xp if it's not necessary. The files on drive 2 ar
there and unaffected

Any comments, suggestions

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blip

Hi,

The bootloader was overwritten, see this link on re-adding XP using bcdedit:
http://www.tweakvista.com/articles/3..._xp_and_vista/

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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"blip" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hello, and thanks to all who read/respond.
> Background info:
> vista installed on drive 1
> xp installed on drive 2
> dual booted just fine.
>
> A week ago my main drive stopped working - a manufacturer fault. I lost
> everything on the drive.
> I replaced the main drive 1, installed vista 64 again. Drive 2 was
> unaffected.
> I would like to dual boot so that I can run xp again, but don't know
> exactly how to set that up again.
> XP is already (I assume) on drive 2. There is no boot.ini on Drive 1
> now.
>
> I know there are tutorials on how to set up dual booting, but I don't
> want to re-install xp if it's not necessary. The files on drive 2 are
> there and unaffected.
>
> Any comments, suggestions?
>
>
> --
> blip