dual boot XP after preinstalled Vista

[sandor54]

pre-installed Vista on my new laptop won't let me install my old XP next to it. At 54, life is hard on a lamer ...
afer shrinking my C:, somehow, I managed to boot XP from my CD and install it on the new partition, (Fat32) ... OK;
At reboot, I used my Vista startup to bring back the Vista -it probably re-wrote my master boot record on C:
then, I couldn't boot from my XP CD and was stuck ...
I re-formatted my new partition to NTFS; I got a copy of VistaBootPro;
can someone help me out? Do I use VistaBootPro in Vista?
Alex

 

[sandor54]

I have an active NTSF partition Fsystem, active primary), with running XP, but I can't get VistaBootPro running on it [no .Net frame, no internet there]. At reboot, I repair the Vista OS on C: (with system repair from install disk). I reboot, install VistaBootPro, run it, install Windows Vista legacy bootloader (1st option) on all drives, reboot, get the options: 1- Toshiba recovery environment; 2- Vista OS; 3- XP. Hooray, but when I select it and boot, I get:
"there was a change - a problem, insert windows install disk, select language, repair File ntldr
status: 0xc000000f;
info: entry could not be loaded - app. mssing or corrupt" Exit gets me back to boot choices, Vista starts just fine ...
Did I do wrong at install, or do I have to use mscfg.exe to suspend Toshiba stuff - a lot of them, to finally put XP on my laptop, or am I doomed to boot for it from CD? (by the way, could I boot and run from a flash drive, would it be faster?
Alex

 

[sandor54]

here is what VistaBootPro reports on BCD settings:
Entry 1
-----------------------------------------
Name: Toshiba Recovery Environment
BCD ID: {572bcd56-ffa7-11d9-aae0-0007e994107d}
Boot Drive: Device\HarddiskVolume1]\Sources\Boot.wim,{ad6c7bc8-fa0f-11da-8ddf-0013200354d8}
Windows Drive: Device\HarddiskVolume1]\Sources\Boot.wim,{ad6c7bc8-fa0f-11da-8ddf-0013200354d8}
System Bootloader: \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \windows

Entry 2
----------------------------------------------
Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Boot Drive: C:
Windows Drive: C:
System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry 3
-----------------------------------
Name: XP
BCD ID: {ntldr}
Boot Drive: F:
System Bootloader: \ntldr

Alex

 

[linney]

What does it say when you run the Diagnostics (tab) in VistaBootPro


What process or operating system is giving you this message "there was a change - a problem, insert windows install disk, select language, repair File ntldr
status: 0xc000000f;", I don't recognise that as a XP Message, sounds like it may becoming from the Vista Boot Manager?


Try putting the 3 XP files, NtDetect.com, Ntldr, and Boot.ini in the root of the Vista Partition , if they already there now and still not booting to XP, then try putting those 3 files in the root of the XP Portion. See this thread.

Subject: NTLDR help

http://www.computing.net/windowsvista/wwwboard/forum/560.html

Otherwise have a look at the Dual Booting links in this forum.

PRONETWORKS Forum

http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/

 

[sandor54]

thanks kindly, will try ASAP ...

 

[sandor54]

Vistabootpro diagnostics (before reboot) saw all three OS, (not in red)
this message came right after i tried to boot XP from the boot selections (it is not exactly word by wor):
"there was a change - a problem, insert windows install disk, select language, repair File ntldr
status: 0xc000000f;"- suppose an XP message alerting that nothing is readable due to the Ntldr ...
Alex

 

[sandor54]

hooray! your 3 files copied over from Vista to XP worked ! problem solved ... on to new ones ...
linney, my profound gratitude ... make 3 wishes ...
Alex

 

[linney]

Glad you got that one sorted. Now you can work out why all your Vista System Restore points vanish after you boot into XP and then back in to Vista. Don't spend too much time on it as it is a Vista by design type of bug.

 

[sandor54]

and right you are ... another thanks, I won't scratch where it doesn't itch... any wishes /interests? Maybe I can help, or have a "message" for you (- as in the 11-th prophecy
Alex

 

[linney]

Thanks for your kind offer, I just wish the questions got easier over time, but they never do.

In two lines or less, what's the 11th Prophecy?