Reinstall XP after Vista dual-boot install

[Markbnj]

Hi guys, Well my eighteen-month old Windows XP Pro installation is starting to get a little flaky. IE 7 keeps crashing on exit, and hangs briefly closing tabs. Screen saver doesn't kick off reliably. Little crap like that.

Thing is I have a Vista dual-boot installation, so what I want to do is reinstall XP onto the partition it is currently in. Pretty confident that will blow out Vista's MBR. If that happens I won't be able to boot Vista to use BCD to restore it. Can I use the Vista CD to do this, similar to what recovery console/fixmbr would do in XP? If I do this, will it preserve the BCD entries for the XP partition? Anyone have any experience at this?

 

[ClickCardo]

Go to

http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/forum...l&sid=4e40fca6146362614c306caa55b957ba

They are the experts. They have a utility called VistaBoot Pro that can backup everything you are talking about, reinstall it later, make Vista single boot (maybe you add XP as the dual boot then) etc.

Check it out.

 

[Markbnj]

Cool, thanks for the tip.

 

[exaltair]

Yes, boot up from Vista CD and you can restore your boot entry from there.