Please help me fix my corrupted dual boot

[ibex333]

I had my system set up such that I can dual boot XP and Vista, but the MBR somehow got corrupted....

I used the repair option in XP installation, and recovered my XP installation, but I couldnt recover my Vista, so I popped in my Vista CD and used it's recover feature. Now Vista boots fine, but no mention of XP anywhere... Used the XP CD again to "repair" and again, XP boots fine with no mention of Vista...


I googled this, and found something about typing X:\boot\Bootsect.exe /NT60 All where "X" is my dvd drive letter to recover the dual boot MBR...

I did that, restarted, and now I'm back to only Vista yet again, with no XP!!

I know for sure that both of my operating systems are installed on two of my partitions. I know that the installations are NOT corrupted. Only the file resposible for the dual boot is... How do I fix it?

I know I could probably format the hd and reinstal both OSes from scrath, but I have a ton of junk installed that I really do not want to reinstall unless I have to.

 

[techmanc]

Not sure what you did in XP repair mode but you should have run fixmbr and fixboot. Then as you stated used Vista startup repair that always worked for me.
2 utilities that help with my dual boot setup are EasyBCD 1.7.2 which is a vista boot manager and
iReboot 1.1 which allows you to reboot to installed OS without watching to change boot menu

heres the link

http://neosmart.net/

 

[ibex333]

Thanx.. I "added" windows xp to the boot screen using EasyBCD and that gave me my dual boot options again.

 

[techmanc]

Your Welcome glad it helped.