Dual boot XP and Vista not working!

Discussion in 'Software' started by Amjad, Oct 29, 2007.

  1. Amjad

    Amjad Corporal

    Hi!
    Here is the situation: Laptop Acer Aspire 5050 that comes with Windows Vista Home Basic. H.D.D: 80 GB that has a hidden IESA partition called PQSERVICE (in the beginning of the hard disk, I'm mentioning this because I think it has something to do with my problem)

    Vista is installed on C:\Acer
    I installed XP on D:\, of course you won't be able to boot Vista at this stage.
    You simply boot from the Vista DVD and choose repair your computer - Open CMD Windows - then type this:
    X:\Sources> Bootrec /fixMbr
    X:\Sources> Bootrec /fixBoot

    The problem is the second instruction isn't working (fixBoot). I tried the same process on a Toshiba laptop and it was very easy. But on this laptop I'm talking about I'm getting a message that the file system isn't recognized.
    The fixMbr is working successfully, but the fixBoot isn't. Could it be that the fixBoot is trying to write a boot sector on the EISA partition?

    What should I do?
    Vista is working by its own when I restore it from the CD. As soon as I install XP I can
    only boot XP.
     

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