interbol

ok, soo this all started when i tried to merge two partitions together and my vista partition went corrupt! the two partitions merged but i couldnt boot up at all to vista, so i decided to format the the merged partition. and i did. the weird thing is that the option to select the OS for vista when my computer boots up is still there! i thought if i formated the partition it would of been gone. then i tried to reinstall vista thinking that'll fix it in the newly two merged partition. it installed and stuff but it got corrupted again after updating. do i have to delete a root file anywhere to get rid of the selection of the vista OS when i formated the partition where the vista is at?

here are sum pics of it




this is how my hard drives are layed out

disk 1

XP

disk 2

Partition for Storage

Vista

PiratesRule

I think you can boot from your XP cd and go the recovery console and use the command "fixmbr"

Or do this.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/200...-boot-with-xp/

davek

You know as part of the vista bs licence you can only install it like twice....

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PiratesRule

I'm pretty sure that they changed that license stuff...

GibbyGano

you need to remove the bootloader, had the same issue when i removed RC1. Pretty simple, just type it in google.

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vsingh

You need your XP CD to do this:

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1341/...loader_startup

interbol

thank u guys! ill be sure to try those suggestions as soon i get back from my class.