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Need info on reinstalling MBR in dual boot situation

xj0hnx

xj0hnx

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