Boot Problem...., Help please.

Sir. BOBSONATOR · Jul 29, 2006

Ok, remember when microsoft released the vista beta as public?

Well i had it 2 months ago and installed it on one partion of my hd. so it went like this

C: Vista 40gigs
D: XP 32 40 gigs

ANd my Xp was filling up, so what i did was pop in my XP cd, and delete my Vista partition so i have 40 gigs of space left over.

Reboot, and my Comp is asking for the OS CD, cause it wants to boot C:\

So i cant get into XP now.

Any suggestions?

TollhouseFrank · Jul 29, 2006

try a repair install.

Sir. BOBSONATOR · Jul 29, 2006

Can I just install XP on the other partition and then fix the boot.ini in there?

TollhouseFrank · Jul 29, 2006

if all it is... is the boot.ini..... gimme a moment... and i'll find a guide on how to fix that...

**edit**

Here is the MS KB that shows you how to fix this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330184

Sir. BOBSONATOR · Jul 29, 2006

Thanks.

Sir. BOBSONATOR · Jul 30, 2006

Great Now i get a

NTLDR is missing..
Cntrl+Alt+del to reboot....

Im just going to install windows over my copy of windows...

klingens · Jul 30, 2006

Use your XP CD to boot to Windows recovery console and enter "fixboot"

Sir. BOBSONATOR · Jul 30, 2006

klingens said:
Use your XP CD to boot to Windows recovery console and enter "fixboot"

Did that, just installed XP over my previous, do you know where all my docs went?

EDIT: Fook it, i reformated...

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