Guest kamil234 Posted March 30, 2007 CID Share Posted March 30, 2007 err...if anyone has dual boot xp and vista can they tell me the string for vista boot up i reinstalled XP on first partition and the boot.ini got destroyed and i could only accesss XP now Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/18339-bootini/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted March 31, 2007 CID Share Posted March 31, 2007 unable to give you the string, I don't use vista but this may help, its free and you may wanna hang on to it just in case. http://www.vistabootpro.org/ Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/18339-bootini/#findComment-215917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kamil234 Posted March 31, 2007 CID Share Posted March 31, 2007 now i can only go on vista. grr.. o well. ill resize the partitions and just store S#!t on xp partition its weird tho. i only have XP on the boot file and vista boots right away anyways. (vista dvd is not inside the drive if you were wondering) Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/18339-bootini/#findComment-215945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted March 31, 2007 CID Share Posted March 31, 2007 reinstall of vista will fix it. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/18339-bootini/#findComment-215949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kamil234 Posted March 31, 2007 CID Share Posted March 31, 2007 o well. ill pass. i'll just use vista you know any program that will format a partition to NTFS 3.01? the ones i tried do it in 1.02 and i can't merge the vista partiton together because they're different NTFS versions. i tried paragon partition manager and partition magic 8.0 Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/18339-bootini/#findComment-215951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted March 31, 2007 CID Share Posted March 31, 2007 o well. ill pass. i'll just use vista you know any program that will format a partition to NTFS 3.01? the ones i tried do it in 1.02 and i can't merge the vista partiton together because they're different NTFS versions. i tried paragon partition manager and partition magic 8.0 format it in vista using computer management Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/18339-bootini/#findComment-215953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kamil234 Posted March 31, 2007 CID Share Posted March 31, 2007 i did it did the same thing. but i got the retail version of paragon partition manager and it had a option to make it the same version. problem solved and partitions merged.. thanks for the help =] Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/18339-bootini/#findComment-215958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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