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Vista / XP dual boot

Asked by julianmatz in Windows Vista, Windows XP Operating System

Hi! I have a Sony VAIO laptop that had Vista pre-installed. I'm now trying to set up a dual boot environment so that XP can also be booted from same machine.

What I did was:

1. Created new partition under Vista (NTFS) with drive letter D:

2. Restarted Vista, etc.

3. Restarted with Win XP CD in drive and booted from CD.

4. Installed Win XP on new partition (D:)

5. Booted XP on D: partition, installed drivers, etc. and installed VistaBootPro 3.3

6. Ran VistaBootPro under XP, which detected Vista as an OS, but not XP so I manually added it.

I now have the "Windows Boot Loader" for Vista and the "Windows Legacy OS Loader" for XP:

Windows Legacy OS Loader
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identifier {default}
device partition=D:
path \ntldr
description Windows XP

After installing the "Windows Vista Bootloader" on "All Drives" I was able to boot into Vista again, but when I choose to boot Windows XP at the boot menu, it fails, telling me that NTLDR is corrupt or missing.

What am I do wrong?

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Vista / XP dual boot

Asked by julianmatz in Windows Vista, Windows XP Operating System

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