Vista/XP dual boot problem

I've dual booted for quite a while between vista and xp. Yesterday,
got an error saying something to the effect of vista has a problem,
please put in installation DVD and restart. Did so, and Vista fixed
something and then was able to boot into Vista, but not XP.

Searched, and found what appeared to be solution; use EasyBCD to add
XP to boot menu. Did that, and at next reboot, got a menu for vista
or XP. Went into XP just fine. Later, I attempted to reboot to
Vista, but got the same original error message. Put in Vista DVD, did
the repair thing, and got back into Vista, but again with no boot menu
which would allow me to go to XP.

But, apparenlty I either used EasyBCD incorrectly, or something else
is the problem.

Any help?

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:55:20 -0600, wrote:

>I've dual booted for quite a while between vista and xp. Yesterday,
>got an error saying something to the effect of vista has a problem,
>please put in installation DVD and restart. Did so, and Vista fixed
>something and then was able to boot into Vista, but not XP.
>
>Searched, and found what appeared to be solution; use EasyBCD to add
>XP to boot menu. Did that, and at next reboot, got a menu for vista
>or XP. Went into XP just fine. Later, I attempted to reboot to
>Vista, but got the same original error message. Put in Vista DVD, did
>the repair thing, and got back into Vista, but again with no boot menu
>which would allow me to go to XP.
>
>But, apparenlty I either used EasyBCD incorrectly, or something else
>is the problem.
>
>Any help?

btw, I should have said: XP was originally installed first, on first
HD. Vista was installed afterwards, on second HD.

Josh

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> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:55:20 -0600, wrote:
>
>>I've dual booted for quite a while between vista and xp. Yesterday,
>>got an error saying something to the effect of vista has a problem,
>>please put in installation DVD and restart. Did so, and Vista fixed
>>something and then was able to boot into Vista, but not XP.
>>
>>Searched, and found what appeared to be solution; use EasyBCD to add
>>XP to boot menu. Did that, and at next reboot, got a menu for vista
>>or XP. Went into XP just fine. Later, I attempted to reboot to
>>Vista, but got the same original error message. Put in Vista DVD, did
>>the repair thing, and got back into Vista, but again with no boot menu
>>which would allow me to go to XP.
>>
>>But, apparenlty I either used EasyBCD incorrectly, or something else
>>is the problem.
>>
>>Any help?
>
> btw, I should have said: XP was originally installed first, on first
> HD. Vista was installed afterwards, on second HD.
>
> Josh

Try Vistabootpro from http://www.vistabootpro.org/

I found it better to use than EasyBCD.

After you get Vista booting properly, make sure the correct
XP boot.ini is in the Vista drive's boor partition.

<> wrote in message
news:...
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:55:20 -0600, wrote:
>
>>I've dual booted for quite a while between vista and xp. Yesterday,
>>got an error saying something to the effect of vista has a problem,
>>please put in installation DVD and restart. Did so, and Vista fixed
>>something and then was able to boot into Vista, but not XP.
>>
>>Searched, and found what appeared to be solution; use EasyBCD to add
>>XP to boot menu. Did that, and at next reboot, got a menu for vista
>>or XP. Went into XP just fine. Later, I attempted to reboot to
>>Vista, but got the same original error message. Put in Vista DVD, did
>>the repair thing, and got back into Vista, but again with no boot menu
>>which would allow me to go to XP.
>>
>>But, apparenlty I either used EasyBCD incorrectly, or something else
>>is the problem.
>>
>>Any help?
>
> btw, I should have said: XP was originally installed first, on first
> HD. Vista was installed afterwards, on second HD.
>
> Josh

I think something else is the problem. Why don't you download the HD
manufacturer's hard drive test suite and test the second HD?