Need info on reinstalling MBR in dual boot situation

[xj0hnx]

My system

AMD 3500+
Asus A8NSLI
2x512 RAM
2x 80GB IDE HDs

I am currently running Windows XP off the first drive as the master, and Vista slaved off of that. My XP install is all jacked up, and I want to install a fresh copy. I know that if I do this, XP will rewrite the MBR and I will not be able to immediately boot into Vista.

My question is, if I use the Vista disk and do a Startup Repair, will it recognize my XP install, and allow me to boot into both again as it is now, or am I going to have to edit the bootloader to let me boot into XP too?

 

[Blazer]

download and use "EasyBCD 1.7" and install to Vista, shutdown and unplug the vista drive and do a repair install to xp.

 

[xj0hnx]

Well, I did use EasyBCD, and it worked great to get me into Vista...now XP is missing from teh bootloader lol. Well, I guess I gotta figure out a way to add it to the Vista loader.

Anyone? I am going to mess around with EasyBCD and see if I can get it to work, but meh, who knows.

 

[Blazer]

i dont dual boot vista anymore but i think you can add a boot option to EasyBCD once you have done the repair install of XP.

 

[xj0hnx]

Thanks. I got it with EasyBCD. Once I installed it on Vista, I was able to add the disk that XP is on, and add it to the bootloader, pretty cool program.