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Dual boot - remove one OS.
When windows vista is selected, BOOTMGR transfer control to the Windows Loader (winload.exe) or winresume.exe in case the system was hibernated. 9. Whenever I boot into XP, and come back into Vista, even though I am using the bios to boot from the drive Vista is on, it still apparently deletes Vista's restore

Happy freakin mothers day...
Three instances of command.com can be found at various locations when a search is performed on C: using XP; but when booting from the 98se startup floppy, no evidence can be found of the C: partition. Would following the instructions to "Repairing the Windows® XP Boot Loader" (found at...

Using the XP boot loader insted of Vista's
Allan al...@bstll.com alt os linux redhat I have a dual boot set up using XP and RH9 on 2 seperate drives that I can't get to dual boot properly. Im using the XP boot loader, and I have modified the boot.ini to piont to a linux.bin file. I select Linux at start up, but I just get the word GRUB in the upper left

XP won't boot from a volume formated in WinPE 2 (Vista)
I grabbed the bootsector as follows: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt cp /bootsect.lnx /mnt umount /mnt Rebooted into MSDOS and copied a:\bootsect.lnx to c:\ and added the following to XPs boot.ini c:\bootsect.lnx="Debian Linux - Woody" I don't know debian, so I'm not sure

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Your boot ini should be on C:, partition one as: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] I'm using XP Pro and I just purchased a new 120G hard drive and I've installed it as my primary drive. My old 30G drive is now a slave. I used the Western Digital

Editing the BOOT.INI File
When windows vista is selected, BOOTMGR transfer control to the Windows Loader (winload.exe) or winresume.exe in case the system was hibernated. Vista bootmngr when used with XP can be a real hassle. Because if you decide to get rid of Vista Xp will not boot anymore if Vista was using botmngr for both drives.

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
To Windows, Linux, its filesystems, its boot loaders, etc. are not recognized for what they are and ignored; or are interpreted as possible viruses and eradicated. This is particularly true of the MBR of the C: drive. If you're using XP, maybe it's overwriting the Linux boot loader on the MBR with its own.

Changing OS back to Win ME from XP
Then you have the choice of using XP bootloader to start up Linux or replace it with Grub/LILO. Both works, but beware that any Update/Repair of XP will wipe out the Linux bootloader and replace it with the XP one without any question. There is a mini HOWTO around explaining how to configure both ways. HTH.

install Windows ME after/plus XP
All I'm talking about is kick starting the boot loader on the hard drive, this should be very possible. Or maybe put a loader on a cd (preferably CD-RW so changes can be made.) Shenan Stanley wrote: Saran wrote: Hello, I am using XP Pro (SP2) on a laptop, and some how the boot sector seems to have gone sour (though

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
I also cleared the MBR using XP CD ( i think i shouldn't have done that though). I can still access RHL using boot disk. If i missed anything please let me know. if you want to re-install the GRUB boot loader as root from the console or xterm session type something like; /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda Question 1:

Dual boot Debian and XP "boot failure" using XP boot loader
Before delving into the complexities of dual-boot, you might want to at least try using XP. MS is well aware people want/need to migrate from others OSs, esp. Had Win98 installed, then added XP, no problem. However, having WinXP installed FIRST can be problematic, Win98 will try overwrite the XP boot loader.

Can I boot of an XP System disk, nested in a logical volume
You can hide the other OS partitions using BING so that they are not seen when you boot a particular partition. BING also includes partition imaging capability. It all seemed so simple in Win 98....... Excuse me? When did any 9x OS have a multi-boot loader like XP has? Of course a multi-OS boot loader like the

Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
Boot.ini is on C: . When I installed MCE using XP Home from D: the boot.ini was changed to only include Mce so I added Xp Home back in as above. Note: 1) timeout is 0 has to be higher if you want to see the option at start up. 2) Boot.ini if you edit with notepad needs read only unchecked.

XP Sysprep Clears My WinPE BCD Entry!
Accoring to support, both C: and D: requires "a bit of registry tweaking" and a Windows 98-startdisk -- using that specific version of /fixmbr. anything you want on drive D: As to drive C: you will need to keep your root directory entries : ntdetect.com ntldr and boot.ini otherwise your system won't boot.

dual boot problem with no/found solution... :)
I felt that using the RC console at the moment was beyond my technical capacity so I stopped the program. Since my system still boots to windows with just a quick Have Windows XP Home Edition upgrade from prior OS Windows ME. Noticed during boot process error message appears quickly that says: Invalid Boot.

Dual boot Debian and XP "boot failure" using XP boot loader
I did this because I didnt want to change the boot loader because I like controling something I can use. The thing is I am using the boot disk to get into Linux and I It's not a Linux question, you want to achieve something using XP tools, ask in the XP newsgroup. 2. Google will give you the answer right away,

Stupid Newbie Questions
Obviously, when booted into XP, the drive letters are different, XP then becomes C, and Vista becomes L. Thanks, -- Don "John Barnes" <jbar...@email.net> wrote in message news:%23gp37t0dIHA.2688@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... When you have the legacy entry set up via VBP using your default boot process, which you said was

XP 98SE dual boot problems
WreX W...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment I'm developing an automated XP deployment using WinPE 2.0 and WIM image files. I'm using the Vista boot loader configured with bcdedit to launch a custom PE WIM on C: into RAM, and a legacy ntldr pointing at D:.

Boot loader
I'm thinking what If I could have windows xp on another partition and windows 98 on the main drive (c) That way, I could train myself on using xp. After the installation has finished, XP will have installed a boot loader. Every time you start your system you can select to load '98 or XP.

Boot.Ini and recovery Console
I had a problem with RH 7.3 -- the install didn't want to write LILO to my MBR -- so I meandered back and forth using XP (boot.ini) as the boot loader, but we all know the process for copying a LILO file over to the c:\ drive is a hassle . . . Now I just use LILO for my boot loader, Plenty of documentation to