Thanks Mark, that did the trick. I'm writing this from my recovered XP
install.
Here's what happened:
When I partitioned the drive, I made several partitions for planned
Operating Systems.
A small primary C drive as the Page file, logical D for Win2K, E for XP, F
for Vista etc.
All those partitions were formatted FAT32.
I installed Win2K first on drive D. Next I installed XP.
What I didn't notice at that time was that the drive letters didn't, for
some reason, correspond to phisycal partitions. Partition 1 was C, partition
2 was D, partition 4 was E (!) and partition 3 was F. I have no idea why.
When I iunstalled Vista, it conmplained about the partition being FAT32 so I
used it to reformat the drive as NTFS ... that's when the drive letters
changed! Now XP which thought it was on E was actually on F and Vista which
thought it was on F was, in fact, on E. Neither would boot. Fortunately,
Win2K would still boot.
When I finally got this mess figured out I cloned F to E, changed boot.ini
so XP pointed to the correct physical partition and ... Voila! XP boots just
fine.
So now I'm gonna format F as NTFS and do a reinstall of Vista there. It
should go smoothly.
Thanks again for your help. I didn't know what Fixboot did, I thought it was
the same thing as Fdisk /MBR ... obviously it does more.
"Mark L. Ferguson" <> wrote in
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> Boot to XP setup CD. Choose 'r' not ENTER, to go to the Recovery Console
> prompt. Use the commands :
>
> fixboot
>
> then:
>
> bootcfg /rebuild
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>> XP was running just fine on this computer.
>> Thought I'd investigate the buzz about Windows Vista.
>> Bought Windows Vista Ultimate Edition at my local WalMart.
>>
>> Installed Vista on a seperate NTFS partition.
>> When Vista first booted up it ran Chkdsk on my XP partition .. dunno why.
>>
>> After running Chkdsk it looked as if Vista was going to start up but it
>> never did.
>> It stalled on a blank screen. I left it there overnite and it never
>> progressed.
>>
>> When I reset/restart I get the option to boot "Previous Version of
>> Windows".
>> I select that option and XP begins to start up.
>> After about 60 seconds I see a Dialog box "Logging off".
>> This is followed by an endless loop: "Saving Your Settings" then "Closing
>> Network Connections".
>>
>> Here's what I want to do:
>> I DO NOT wish to pursue Windows Vista any further.
>> I wish to remove Vista and its Boot Manager.
>> After that I'm fairly certain I can repair my XP installation.
>>
>> Will someone please advise me on how to remove Vista and Bootmgr?
>>
>>
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