Missing Boot Options

[KnightRiderX]

Can someone help me. Windows used to give me the option of booting between XP and Vista Beta but after repairing XP, Windows does not give me the option anymore. I haven't changed anything in the Vista partition. I don't know what to do to make the option screen before XP boots up come back again.

 

[Samstoned]

check your boot.ini file
go to ms website you can get correct line txt to enter
like example
your vista os files are in D:\winnt and your xp os is C:\windows
should read something like this
[boot loader]
timeout=30 <----this sets the time it takes to see the prompt screen
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnit="Microsoft Vista" /fastdetect
need to find out where you have the 2nd os
I would never place 2 os's on same partition in same dir

 

[KnightRiderX]

I have the 2nd OS on my other hard drive. it is the 3rd partition on that hard drive.

 

[Samstoned]

it may read like this
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(3)\winnt="Microsoft Vista" /fastdetect<-this needs to be fig. out

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Instructions for restoring the Vista bootloader here.

 

[KnightRiderX]

Ok now that guy doesn't help at all. He begins by explaining the installing XP or 2000 on a comp which already has Vista will cause Vista to not boot and then goes on to explain how to a previous version of Windows on one that already has Vista. Didn't help at all.

hmm, I'm gonna try something like that Samstoned.

 

[KnightRiderX]

Ok it didn't work.

 

[Samstoned]

OK since this was a leap on my part
never looked at the vista side of system
since I have had no problems
I have looked at my boot.ini and it shows 2 OS's there
never looked further at vista
found this link
may be your best bet vista boot loader

 

[KnightRiderX]

Thnx a lot Samstoned. That program is great. Fixed it with just one click of a button.