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Salami
9th September, 2008, 12:03 PM
Hi there,
I have two Operating systems installed in my pc partitioned hard drive (win Vista on C drive & XP on F drive) the latestst installed OS is XP now I can't get my Vista working as soon I boot the pc goes stright to xp.
any help to get back to vista would be warmly appreciated.
even if I have to delete partition F: :flowers:

shady77
9th September, 2008, 01:10 PM
the problem lies with xp. it overwrites the vista bootloader. get rid of xp and the partition. then follow this guide.
How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) -- the step-by-step guide with screenshots (http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed _first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm)
and good luck

ps why do you want to do this in the 1st place?

Salami
9th September, 2008, 04:36 PM
the problem lies with xp. it overwrites the vista bootloader. get rid of xp and the partition. then follow this guide.
How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) -- the step-by-step guide with screenshots (http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed _first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm)
and good luck

ps why do you want to do this in the 1st place?

Many many thanx for your reply.
the reason for having 2 OS cause I have some software tat I need but is not compatible with Vista platform I will follow your advice and delete the partition with XP in it.

Cheers M8