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    Getting Rid of Dual boot...

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Grey728, Jun 18, 2008.

  1. Grey728

    Grey728 Notebook Evangelist

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    I tried to search the forums but I couldn't find an answer so I'm hoping you can all help me with this issue.

    My laptop has two hard drives. The first has XP installed, and the second, I just recently installed Vista. Now that I'm starting to get used to Vista, I want to take my original XP drive out (not reformat it or anything) and install a new hard drive. The problem is that the XP drive does the Windows selection thing at the start-up. Setting the Vista hard drive as the primary hard drive gives me an error message and says my drive is missing an operating system. What should I do? The way I would like to dual boot is through BIOS, but I made the mistake of installing Vista before disabling my xp drive.
     
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Your just need to insert your Vista disc and do a repair install. That should fix the bootloader
     
    flipfire, Jun 18, 2008
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    Gregory disassemble?

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    Gregory, Jun 18, 2008
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  4. Grey728

    Grey728 Notebook Evangelist

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    thanks guys. I'll give it a shot
     
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    Grey728 Notebook Evangelist

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    Can the same be done to the XP hard drive to remove the boot startup dialogue or should I change than in XP (if it's possible?)
     
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    Gregory disassemble?

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    Do you mean so that each hard drive has a separate boot loader?

    If so, you can either log into the recovery console via the Windows XP disc and type the command 'fixmbr' or do a repair installation.
     
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    Grey728 Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks for the tip. I'll try it tonight.
     
    Grey728, Jun 18, 2008
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