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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th Oct 2006 13:15
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I've got Vista installed on one drive and Win2k on another. Ever since I installed 2k I haven't been able to boo from the Vista drive, regardless of my Bios specifically told to boot from it. Suggestions?

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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th Oct 2006 14:17 Edited at: 26th Oct 2006 14:27
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Well nevermind now, because I can't boot from any drive. Apparently, I can't switch IDE cables and jumpers. The 2k drive keeps saying I'm missing BOOTMGR and the Vista drive thinks windows 2000 is missing the ntldr. wtf?

Trying a repair on the boot sector and it wont even find windows 2000. I just spent the past few days installing all this sh*t and now I can't even use either OS.


Finally got Win2k to load again. Swapped the jumpers to reverse which one was slave and master. (The only jumpers I ever changed was when I took it off to boot from a single drive and completely remove the other from the line.)

So back to my original question, how can I get back into Vista? I got project code I need to get and of course security restricts me from grabbing it off the vista drive in win2k.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 26th Oct 2006 14:20
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Try installing grub, it will write over your current mbr, but hopefully not overwrite your ntldr

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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th Oct 2006 14:46
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Shouldn't my Boot.ini file be located on the C drive where win2k is installed instead of showing up on drive D where vista is at?

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