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    XP Vista Dual Boot Broken

    I had XP and Vista on a dual boot, however my XP installed stabbed itself in the ear'ole and I've reinstalled it.

    Obviously, the computer now boots straight into XP, is there any way to alter my boot.ini to recognise the Vista install and preferably use the Vista boot util to select OS?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vini View Post
    I had XP and Vista on a dual boot, however my XP installed stabbed itself in the ear'ole and I've reinstalled it.

    Obviously, the computer now boots straight into XP, is there any way to alter my boot.ini to recognise the Vista install and preferably use the Vista boot util to select OS?
    Had the same problem myself...winxp uses ntldr to bootup and vista uses a different system and you need a program like Vistabootpro 3.1 to sort it out for you.

    http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=185

    All the answers are on the forum, erm well I got my problem solved by reading there.

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