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Post Date: 2009-03-05
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    Posted: 05 Mar 2009 at 10:30am
Does he get the option in the boot sequence to choose which OS to boot to?  ...and then if he chooses XP it doesn't work?  Or does the option not even present?

From your description, sounds like he has 2 separate, HDD's - one for Vista and the other for XP.  If the option to choose the OS during boot isn't there, he might have the XP drive master/slave jumpers set incorrectly.

(Disclaimer:  I actually don't know if what I just spewed is correct.  It sounded logical to me though.)  Cool
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Yeah....you did mention SATA.  Sorry about that.  Any error if he chooses XP at the boot menu?   Or does the system just say  "*%#@ you.  I'm booting Vista"?
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Before you scrap it, you might try messing with EasyBCD to see if you can set up boot files properly. It writes boot records for you.
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Run EasyBCD from the XP drive and try repairing the boot record on the Vista drive. Sometimes just having it write a new master boot record on the drive for you is enough. You can also set up the dual boot using EasyBCD. That utility will also redo the boot.ini for you automatically, btw. It's a great little utility.

Actually, I'm not completely clear on how far it is getting. If it is getting into the Vista load screen before it blows up, it must be a driver being loaded during Vista's boot sequence. Man, this is one of those things where I wish I could take a look at it directly to see what it's doing. Does it dump with an error code or just hang? I'm guessing you already googled the error code?
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Posts: 36758 		  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 05 Mar 2009 at 7:34pm
HM you have to install them in a particular sequence, which did you install first?

Edited by DST4ME - 05 Mar 2009 at 7:34pm

Nvidia Drivers----AMD Drivers
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Posts: 36758 		  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 05 Mar 2009 at 7:59pm
he must have not done them right and messeup the boot files.

Nvidia Drivers----AMD Drivers
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Posts: 36758 		  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 05 Mar 2009 at 8:11pm
HM see if this will help his case

to fix the bootloader, when you are on that page (step 4) at the top of the post you will see a link for "Fix Bootloader" (which is really step 3)

Edited by DST4ME - 05 Mar 2009 at 8:14pm

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Posts: 36758 		  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 05 Mar 2009 at 8:17pm
Any time boss my pleasure, good luck

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Posts: 36758 		  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 05 Mar 2009 at 8:40pm
I think you guys just need to reinstall everything and do them in the right order this time.

but try EasyBCD it is a good app.

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good luck, let us know how it went

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