bootmanager after re installing windows xp

Hello,
I installed Vista and XP in a Multiboot configuration.
Now I had to re-install my XP. Afterwards the Vista Boot-Manager is gone, XP is starting directly - I am not able to boot into Vista anymore. I have already tried to repair the BootManager with the Vista Installation DVD - without success. So, does anybody know how I can get the Vista Bootmanager back and start Vista?
Thanks for any help! mvol

Yeah, general rule of thumb there is always install the oldest O/S first.
Simply re-install Vista, now, and the Vista boot manager, that you overwrote when you install XP, will be working again.
Mark -- My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.
"mvol" wrote in message

Hello,
I installed Vista and XP in a Multiboot configuration.
Now I had to re-install my XP. Afterwards the Vista Boot-Manager is gone, XP is starting directly - I am not able to boot into Vista anymore. I have already tried to repair the BootManager with the Vista Installation DVD - without success. So, does anybody know how I can get the Vista Bootmanager back and start Vista?
Thanks for any help! mvol

Perhaps you can tell me where I went wrong; I had a great dual-boot, even tweaked with Vista Boot Manager. However, my Vista IE went away suddenly (white screens o' death) (XP is on C, specifically installed Vista to D, it worked great that way with dual boot from attempt #1). I reformatted D and used it for storage only for awhile. Meanwhile I also added a gig of RAM (now 2 gigs) which seems to make a discernable difference (!) in Vista. So I reinstalled Vista last night, armed with the new memory, carefully installing it to a clean D drive, and it worked quite well - except dual boot was AWOL. The computer booted right into Vista. So I ran bootfix and fixmbr from the repair console of XP and that got me into XP; tried to coax VistaBootPro to give me both again with a dual boot screen; no success. Do I need to install XP again then Vista to get the dual boot or is there any faster way? At any rate, the 10 minutes I spent exploring Vista (nervously, knowing that XP was compromised and had to be fixed, I was backed up but it takes too forever and usually leaves some mysteries) though I got it back) indicated that Vista really is more responsive with more RAM. When I buy my shiny new retail copy of VISTA <gulp> I'm going to trust it to upgrade XP /<gulp> COMPLETELY (but yes, more tedious backups at the ready).
Thanks - Bill Halvorsen
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote in message

Yeah, general rule of thumb there is always install the oldest O/S first.
Simply re-install Vista, now, and the Vista boot manager, that you overwrote when you install XP, will be working again.
Mark -- My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.
"mvol" wrote in message Hello,
I installed Vista and XP in a Multiboot configuration.
Now I had to re-install my XP. Afterwards the Vista Boot-Manager is gone, XP is starting directly - I am not able to boot into Vista anymore. I have already tried to repair the BootManager with the Vista Installation DVD - without success. So, does anybody know how I can get the Vista Bootmanager back and start Vista?
Thanks for any help! mvol

"none" wrote in message

Perhaps you can tell me where I went wrong; I had a great dual-boot, even tweaked with Vista Boot Manager. However, my Vista IE went away suddenly (white screens o' death) (XP is on C, specifically installed Vista to D, it worked great that way with dual boot from attempt #1). I reformatted D and used it for storage only for awhile. Meanwhile I also added a gig of RAM (now 2 gigs) which seems to make a discernable difference (!) in Vista. So I reinstalled Vista last night, armed with the new memory, carefully installing it to a clean D drive, and it worked quite well - except dual boot was AWOL. The computer booted right into Vista. So I ran bootfix and fixmbr from the repair console of XP and that got me into XP; tried to coax VistaBootPro to give me both again with a dual boot screen; no success. Do I need to install XP again then Vista to get the dual boot or is there any faster way? At any rate, the 10 minutes I spent exploring Vista (nervously, knowing that XP was compromised and had to be fixed, I was backed up but it takes too forever and usually leaves some mysteries) though I got it back) indicated that Vista really is more responsive with more RAM. When I buy my shiny new retail copy of VISTA gulp> I'm going to trust it to upgrade XP /<gulp> COMPLETELY (but yes, more tedious backups at the ready).
Thanks - Bill Halvorsen
Hmmmm...

Normally when you install Vista on a second drive or partition it sets up and detects the older operating system, and then gives you the dual-boot screen at load. Chad Harris has posted a number of very good tutorials on this and also closely related subjects. Perhaps search the newsgroup and see what he had to say on the subject, or perhaps he will see this and offer some expertise.
-- Mark
My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.

You overwrote the boot configuration data store which Vista wrote to the XP volume.
"none" wrote in message

Perhaps you can tell me where I went wrong; I had a great dual-boot, even tweaked with Vista Boot Manager. However, my Vista IE went away suddenly (white screens o' death) (XP is on C, specifically installed Vista to D, it worked great that way with dual boot from attempt #1). I reformatted D and used it for storage only for awhile. Meanwhile I also added a gig of RAM (now 2 gigs) which seems to make a discernable difference (!) in Vista. So I reinstalled Vista last night, armed with the new memory, carefully installing it to a clean D drive, and it worked quite well - except dual boot was AWOL. The computer booted right into Vista. So I ran bootfix and fixmbr from the repair console of XP and that got me into XP; tried to coax VistaBootPro to give me both again with a dual boot screen; no success. Do I need to install XP again then Vista to get the dual boot or is there any faster way? At any rate, the 10 minutes I spent exploring Vista (nervously, knowing that XP was compromised and had to be fixed, I was backed up but it takes too forever and usually leaves some mysteries) though I got it back) indicated that Vista really is more responsive with more RAM. When I buy my shiny new retail copy of VISTA gulp> I'm going to trust it to upgrade XP /<gulp> COMPLETELY (but yes, more tedious backups at the ready).
Thanks - Bill Halvorsen
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote in message Yeah, general rule of thumb there is always install the oldest O/S first.
Simply re-install Vista, now, and the Vista boot manager, that you overwrote when you install XP, will be working again.
Mark -- My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.
"mvol" wrote in message Hello,
I installed Vista and XP in a Multiboot configuration.
Now I had to re-install my XP. Afterwards the Vista Boot-Manager is gone, XP is starting directly - I am not able to boot into Vista anymore. I have already tried to repair the BootManager with the Vista Installation DVD - without success. So, does anybody know how I can get the Vista Bootmanager back and start Vista?
Thanks for any help! mvol

Not sure I quite understand. Yes, I had installed Vista, and yes, I blew away as much of Vista's remnants as I could, on drive C (that contains all the boot info). I guess I expected that when I reinstalled Vista that it would therefore rebuild the dual-boot setup. Since it didn't, I need suggestions as to how to get dual boot back if I try another install of Vista.
I could reinstall XP then reinstall Vista, of course but that is a rather miserable process. I must say the Vista install process is REALLY smooth compared to XP and predecessors, big improvement!
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

You overwrote the boot configuration data store which Vista wrote to the XP volume.
"none" wrote in message Perhaps you can tell me where I went wrong; I had a great dual-boot, even tweaked with Vista Boot Manager. However, my Vista IE went away suddenly (white screens o' death) (XP is on C, specifically installed Vista to D, it worked great that way with dual boot from attempt #1). I reformatted D and used it for storage only for awhile. Meanwhile I also added a gig of RAM (now 2 gigs) which seems to make a discernable difference (!) in Vista. So I reinstalled Vista last night, armed with the new memory, carefully installing it to a clean D drive, and it worked quite well - except dual boot was AWOL. The computer booted right into Vista. So I ran bootfix and fixmbr from the repair console of XP and that got me into XP; tried to coax VistaBootPro to give me both again with a dual boot screen; no success. Do I need to install XP again then Vista to get the dual boot or is there any faster way? At any rate, the 10 minutes I spent exploring Vista (nervously, knowing that XP was compromised and had to be fixed, I was backed up but it takes too forever and usually leaves some mysteries) though I got it back) indicated that Vista really is more responsive with more RAM. When I buy my shiny new retail copy of VISTA gulp> I'm going to trust it to upgrade XP /<gulp> COMPLETELY (but yes, more tedious backups at the ready).
Thanks - Bill Halvorsen
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote in message Yeah, general rule of thumb there is always install the oldest O/S first.
Simply re-install Vista, now, and the Vista boot manager, that you overwrote when you install XP, will be working again.
Mark -- My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.
"mvol" wrote in message Hello,
I installed Vista and XP in a Multiboot configuration.
Now I had to re-install my XP. Afterwards the Vista Boot-Manager is gone, XP is starting directly - I am not able to boot into Vista anymore. I have already tried to repair the BootManager with the Vista Installation DVD - without success. So, does anybody know how I can get the Vista Bootmanager back and start Vista?
Thanks for any help! mvol

At the time you installed XP with Vista already installed Vista had written its boot configuration data store to the drive where you installed XP. That's what I mean by overwritting the bcd store.
"none" wrote in message

Not sure I quite understand. Yes, I had installed Vista, and yes, I blew away as much of Vista's remnants as I could, on drive C (that contains all the boot info). I guess I expected that when I reinstalled Vista that it would therefore rebuild the dual-boot setup. Since it didn't, I need suggestions as to how to get dual boot back if I try another install of Vista.
I could reinstall XP then reinstall Vista, of course but that is a rather miserable process. I must say the Vista install process is REALLY smooth compared to XP and predecessors, big improvement!
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message You overwrote the boot configuration data store which Vista wrote to the XP volume.
"none" wrote in message Perhaps you can tell me where I went wrong; I had a great dual-boot, even tweaked with Vista Boot Manager. However, my Vista IE went away suddenly (white screens o' death) (XP is on C, specifically installed Vista to D, it worked great that way with dual boot from attempt #1). I reformatted D and used it for storage only for awhile. Meanwhile I also added a gig of RAM (now 2 gigs) which seems to make a discernable difference (!) in Vista. So I reinstalled Vista last night, armed with the new memory, carefully installing it to a clean D drive, and it worked quite well - except dual boot was AWOL. The computer booted right into Vista. So I ran bootfix and fixmbr from the repair console of XP and that got me into XP; tried to coax VistaBootPro to give me both again with a dual boot screen; no success. Do I need to install XP again then Vista to get the dual boot or is there any faster way? At any rate, the 10 minutes I spent exploring Vista (nervously, knowing that XP was compromised and had to be fixed, I was backed up but it takes too forever and usually leaves some mysteries) though I got it back) indicated that Vista really is more responsive with more RAM. When I buy my shiny new retail copy of VISTA <gulp> I'm going to trust it to upgrade XP /<gulp> COMPLETELY (but yes, more tedious backups at the ready).
Thanks - Bill Halvorsen
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote in message Yeah, general rule of thumb there is always install the oldest O/S first.
Simply re-install Vista, now, and the Vista boot manager, that you overwrote when you install XP, will be working again.
Mark -- My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.
"mvol" wrote in message Hello,
I installed Vista and XP in a Multiboot configuration.
Now I had to re-install my XP. Afterwards the Vista Boot-Manager is gone, XP is starting directly - I am not able to boot into Vista anymore. I have already tried to repair the BootManager with the Vista Installation DVD - without success. So, does anybody know how I can get the Vista Bootmanager back and start Vista?
Thanks for any help! mvol

In , on 07/23/06 at 04:14 PM, "Colin Barnhorst" said:

Now I had to re-install my XP. Afterwards the Vista Boot-Manager is gone, XP is starting directly - I am not able to boot into Vista anymore. I have already tried to repair the BootManager with the Vista Installation DVD - without success. So, does anybody know how I can get the Vista Bootmanager back and start Vista?

I had pretty much the same problem. Never got Vista back after the 3rd party Bootmanager GUI product.
I disliked EVERYTHING I saw about Vista. Nothing new, just the normal stuff made exceedingly hard to accomplish.
Like they screwed a perfectly good Windows explorer. Classic windows are NOT class.
Formatted the D partition & am back to using XP Pro happily.
-- Slim -----------------------------------------------------------

No, I didn't install XP with vista already installed. XP was there already. I had done away with Vista only and would like to put it back the way it was, but it doesn't "dual boot." XP has never left my machine ;(
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

At the time you installed XP with Vista already installed Vista had written its boot configuration data store to the drive where you installed XP. That's what I mean by overwritting the bcd store.
"none" wrote in message Not sure I quite understand. Yes, I had installed Vista, and yes, I blew away as much of Vista's remnants as I could, on drive C (that contains all the boot info). I guess I expected that when I reinstalled Vista that it would therefore rebuild the dual-boot setup. Since it didn't, I need suggestions as to how to get dual boot back if I try another install of Vista.
I could reinstall XP then reinstall Vista, of course but that is a rather miserable process. I must say the Vista install process is REALLY smooth compared to XP and predecessors, big improvement!
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message You overwrote the boot configuration data store which Vista wrote to the XP volume.
"none" wrote in message Perhaps you can tell me where I went wrong; I had a great dual-boot, even tweaked with Vista Boot Manager. However, my Vista IE went away suddenly (white screens o' death) (XP is on C, specifically installed Vista to D, it worked great that way with dual boot from attempt #1). I reformatted D and used it for storage only for awhile. Meanwhile I also added a gig of RAM (now 2 gigs) which seems to make a discernable difference (!) in Vista. So I reinstalled Vista last night, armed with the new memory, carefully installing it to a clean D drive, and it worked quite well - except dual boot was AWOL. The computer booted right into Vista. So I ran bootfix and fixmbr from the repair console of XP and that got me into XP; tried to coax VistaBootPro to give me both again with a dual boot screen; no success. Do I need to install XP again then Vista to get the dual boot or is there any faster way? At any rate, the 10 minutes I spent exploring Vista (nervously, knowing that XP was compromised and had to be fixed, I was backed up but it takes too forever and usually leaves some mysteries) though I got it back) indicated that Vista really is more responsive with more RAM. When I buy my shiny new retail copy of VISTA <gulp> I'm going to trust it to upgrade XP /<gulp> COMPLETELY (but yes, more tedious backups at the ready).
Thanks - Bill Halvorsen
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote in message Yeah, general rule of thumb there is always install the oldest O/S first.
Simply re-install Vista, now, and the Vista boot manager, that you overwrote when you install XP, will be working again.
Mark -- My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.
"mvol" wrote in message Hello,
I installed Vista and XP in a Multiboot configuration.
Now I had to re-install my XP. Afterwards the Vista Boot-Manager is gone, XP is starting directly - I am not able to boot into Vista anymore. I have already tried to repair the BootManager with the Vista Installation DVD - without success. So, does anybody know how I can get the Vista Bootmanager back and start Vista?
Thanks for any help! mvol

I had pretty much the same problem. Never got Vista back after the 3rd party Bootmanager GUI product.
I disliked EVERYTHING I saw about Vista. Nothing new, just the normal stuff made exceedingly hard to accomplish.
Like they screwed a perfectly good Windows explorer. Classic windows are NOT class.
Formatted the D partition & am back to using XP Pro happily.
-- Slim -----------------------------------------------------------

I have to admit it does sort of seem like they took the GUI elements and locations, threw them up in the air, and where they landed, decided THAT would be a better place for them... and thus a new version of Windows.