XP/Vista Dual Boot Problem

I just got my new laptop which came with Vista Business. I want to setup
a dual boot system because I mainly use XP and I also want to use vista
occasionally.

This is what I did:

1) I bought a new hard drive and created two partitions, I then
installed XP on one of the partitions (C drive).

2) I made a backup image of the original hard drive (which came with
the laptop and has Vista installed) using Acronis True Image.

3) I then restored the image on the D drive of the new hard drive.

4) I installed the new hard drive in the laptop. After a reboot it went
straight to XP. So I edited the Boot.ini and included Vista. After
reboot it did give me a selection, I selected Vista and nothing
happened.

I did a little research and found out that I need to restore the
Windows Vista MBR and create a new BCD Boot .INI file using Vista. I
know I can achieve that by doing a repair using the Vista CD. The
problem is that the laptop does not come with a Vista CD.

Does anybody know how to repair the MBR without the Vista CD?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


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billz0811

Download and install VistaBootPro:
http://www.vistabootpro.org/


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"billz0811" wrote:

I just got my new laptop which came with Vista Business. I want to setup
a dual boot system because I mainly use XP and I also want to use vista
occasionally.

This is what I did:

1) I bought a new hard drive and created two partitions, I then
installed XP on one of the partitions (C drive).

2) I made a backup image of the original hard drive (which came with
the laptop and has Vista installed) using Acronis True Image.

3) I then restored the image on the D drive of the new hard drive.

4) I installed the new hard drive in the laptop. After a reboot it went
straight to XP. So I edited the Boot.ini and included Vista. After
reboot it did give me a selection, I selected Vista and nothing
happened.

I did a little research and found out that I need to restore the
Windows Vista MBR and create a new BCD Boot .INI file using Vista. I
know I can achieve that by doing a repair using the Vista CD. The
problem is that the laptop does not come with a Vista CD.

Does anybody know how to repair the MBR without the Vista CD?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


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billz0811

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:49:18 +0000, billz0811 wrote:

> I did a little research and found out that I need to restore the Windows
> Vista MBR and create a new BCD Boot .INI file using Vista. I know I can
> achieve that by doing a repair using the Vista CD. The problem is that
> the laptop does not come with a Vista CD.
>
> Does anybody know how to repair the MBR without the Vista CD?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Without the Vista CD, you may be out of luck. However, there are third
party bootloaders out there that can handle Vista and XP.