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King of Pain
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(Updated remake of a question)
Okay, so I own an HP Pavillion something(sorry, at a friends house typing this, I can't recall from the top of my head).
Anyways, here's what I did. I:
1.Created a 10gb partition on my main C: drive where I have Vista(have another hard drive D
2.In my bios, set the SATA from RAID to IDE and put boot disc as first priority
3.Loaded disc. A EULA came up and said to hit F8 to agree, I did so. Then it prompted a screen on which drive to install it to. I chose the 10GB partition.
4.It loaded and installs XP.
Thing is, now it only boots XP. I can access my C: drive and all my old stuff still. I have tried several things, probably making things worst. I thought hitting the ESC button to get to the boot menu would allow me to choose which one to boot, all boot XP. I also tried the following:
1.EasyBCD. Won't work because XP says it failed to initialize properly.
2.I have entered Control Panel>System>Advance. It has only one option. Microsoft XP. I tried adding a line to use Partition(1) because I saw XP used Partition(2). I don't think that's how it works, but anyways I ran up Vista and it booted up, giving me two options. XP or the "Vista" I put in. It didn't work, says it was missing or corrupt file <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
So my question is, how do I get to go back to boot Vista? I don't care if XP goes away, but I need that Vista back.
What kind? Recovery? Or normal install?
Okay, so I own an HP Pavillion something(sorry, at a friends house typing this, I can't recall from the top of my head).
Anyways, here's what I did. I:
1.Created a 10gb partition on my main C: drive where I have Vista(have another hard drive D
2.In my bios, set the SATA from RAID to IDE and put boot disc as first priority
3.Loaded disc. A EULA came up and said to hit F8 to agree, I did so. Then it prompted a screen on which drive to install it to. I chose the 10GB partition.
4.It loaded and installs XP.
Thing is, now it only boots XP. I can access my C: drive and all my old stuff still. I have tried several things, probably making things worst. I thought hitting the ESC button to get to the boot menu would allow me to choose which one to boot, all boot XP. I also tried the following:
1.EasyBCD. Won't work because XP says it failed to initialize properly.
2.I have entered Control Panel>System>Advance. It has only one option. Microsoft XP. I tried adding a line to use Partition(1) because I saw XP used Partition(2). I don't think that's how it works, but anyways I ran up Vista and it booted up, giving me two options. XP or the "Vista" I put in. It didn't work, says it was missing or corrupt file <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
So my question is, how do I get to go back to boot Vista? I don't care if XP goes away, but I need that Vista back.
What kind? Recovery? Or normal install?