Bogarted XP/Vista Dual boot

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I'm wondering if anyone knows how to recover this without a complete rebuild.

I managed to hit the delete button on the boot folder in XP64 which resulted in my deleting the Vista boot manager database.

Smooth move on my part, I know. You can save your breath Sojourn. =P

I was able to use the Vista64 install DVD to rebuild the boot database so vista would boot, but the XP64 entry is no longer in the database. Is there a method to simply re-add XP64 to the vista boot database? I don't want to nuke my PC and reinstall both XP and Vista then sit on the phone to India to reactivate twice. ; ;

I'll buy you a cookie!
 
I don't know anything about this. I was going to post something completely unrelated and somehow manage to suggest to you that you should use Firefox as your browser because it's more secure just to see if I could get a response out of Kalia.

btw, that link above points to a screenshot of a desktop. I was gonna put a "shemales folder" next to it like I saw in a desktop screenshot earlier.

I'm still at work and the joke would probably only be funny to a very small amount of people.

I'm sorry I can't help, I haven't even tried to find out anything about Vista yet. =/
 
You managed to post "lol" but in your old age you forgot to post the C:\boot.ini so I can fix your problem for you. Shame on you!
 
Actually I almost forgot that Vista has a completely redesigned boot process. You need to use the tool bcdedit.exe to edit boot configuration data in Vista. It's not very well documented except in terse language, but you might refer to the following links:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/f/7/af7777e5-7dcd-4800-8a0a-b18336565f5b/BCD.doc

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa362689.aspx

It seems to me that you're going to have to do something like the following:

  1. Use bcdedit.exe to determine whether or not there is still an entry in the boot configuration database for Microsoft Windows Xp. This appears to be possible with bcdedit.exe /v. It's up to you to parse all that output and figure out if the Xp boot entry is still there. It probably isn't, however.
  2. If the xp entry was not there, create it.
    1. bcdedit.exe -create /d "Fodder's Windows Xp Boot Configuration" /application NTLDR
At this point, you can use Windows Vista GUI to do the rest of the work for you. Run MSCONFIG and go to the Boot tab.

Here is another article that might come in handy.

http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=475

However, you have to actually subscribe to their magazine, which you will receive in print every so often. (It's free, just required to register in order to view the article).
 
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
 
yea as per the above post, boot.ini isn't the solution because you're using vista. Try the bcdedit method listed above and see if you have any success.
 
What happens when you type

bcdedit.exe -create /d "Fodder's Windows Xp Boot Configuration" /application NTLDR
 
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