ideas Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 Hi, i hope you guys can help me with this prob. i have a laptop (Presario F557US) came with Vista Basic then i installed windows XP pro on the same partition C:, now when i boot i do not see an option to choose which OS i want to boot from. i would be happy to get some help with this scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommaso Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 ermmmm... did you install both OS on the same partition, is that right?What OS is currently loading now?I really do not know if you can have them all in the same partition and run both fine...But, try to give us more info, please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ideas Posted July 16, 2007 Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 both on the same partition, windows vista was the first installed then windows xp after, now i can only boot to xp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerb255 Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 (edited) Well...here's the deal.Vista uses an entirely different bootloader than previous versions of Windows. This means that eithera) Vista MUST be installed LAST in order to use its bootloader.orb) You'll have to use a third-party bootloader. Edited July 16, 2007 by killerb255 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 SimpleRun Windows XP & Insert your Vista DVD into drive.Open Command Prompt and navigate to G:\Boot>Where G is your DVD drivenow run the commandbootsect /nt60 C:Now, You can boot into Vista ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesurfer Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 Is it really that simple?He installed XP ON TOP OF a Vista install!Wouldn't his new Vista files have been overwritten by older XP files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ideas Posted July 17, 2007 Author Share Posted July 17, 2007 thanks am gonna try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 (edited) Is it really that simple?He installed XP ON TOP OF a Vista install!Wouldn't his new Vista files have been overwritten by older XP files?i guess it depends on if it made different windows folders.. but it was that simple when i had vista installed first and wanted to install xp on another partition. Edited July 17, 2007 by ripken204 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ideas Posted July 18, 2007 Author Share Posted July 18, 2007 thanks guys, i used the cd found the boot folder then used the bootsect.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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