How To Recover Your Vista After XP Installation

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If you have installed, XP, on a Vista machine, in the Boot Menu, you may no longer be able to see Vista as an option. This occurs because when a different version of Windows is installed, it rewrites the MBR to call its own boot loader.


So if you install Vista on a PC where XP is already installed, the Vista boot menu incorporates the options from the older OS’s boot menu. But, on the other hand, if you install XP on Vista, it will overwrite the MBR with one that does not recognize the newer Vista’s Boot Loader.

So if you find that Vista is missing as an option in a multi-boot computer, you can resolve this issue, as follows : Open cmd in XP.

Run <D>:\Boot\ Bootsect.exe –NT60 All

Where <D> is the Drive letter.

Reboot. You will now be able to see the Vista menu option/s.

Now To restore the entry for XP, open an elevated command prompt and enter this:

Bcdedit –create {ntldr} –d “Put Description of Menu here”

Restart Computer.

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Thanks for this – great idea.

Comment by ugeneric on November 15, 2008 @ 3:45 pm

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