(Solved) - XP Boot problem with preinstalled VISTA!!!HELP

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(Solved) - XP Boot problem with preinstalled VISTA!!!HELP

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fawad

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I just installed XP Pro on myHP LAPTOP 6735ee that came with Vista Home Premium preinstalled as a dual boot setup, according to your guide. XP booted fine the first time, and after i installed VistaBootPro Vista booted fine. But, now if I select XP, it says:

Windows failed to start............
File: \ntldr
Status: 0x000000f
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

but then I copied ntldr , ntdetect.com and boot.ini to my XP drive, my laptop still said that the file was missing when I tried to load XP. Does anybody know what I can do?.....help me

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cwalk

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go to this thread:

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum.....replies=83

look at skysurfers 3rd post^^

you need to use vistabootpro and go into "Manage OS Entries", select your Windows XP Entry, go down to the OS boot options, and check "Change Boot Drive" and set the new boot drive to the drive that you have xp installed on.

**also make sure you have the boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com files in the root of the xp drive, and the root of the vista drive.**

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fawad

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thanx man..........finaaly it worked for me too.....i too was making mistake in choosing drive letter..........once again thanx alot ...... :)

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