unable boot into xp

Hi All,
I had 3 partitions on my 80G hard drive with C:=Win2K, D:=WinXP and E:=Data... I did a clean/format install of Vista 5365 build on the Win2K partition..
After this i am not able to boot into XP SP2 it always booted into Vista.. Then after reading the forums, i downloaded VistabootPro software and added legacy XP with D: partition..
I do get the Windows Boot Manager with Vista and XP. but i am still not able to boot into XP.. I get error 0xC000000f with info saying "The selected entry couldn't be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt".
What do i have to do to fix this ? Am i missing some steps ?
Thanks Sathish

It's highly likely the Win2k partition was the boot partition, did you verify from diskmgmt what was the boot partition before doing anything?
If you then formatted it and installed Vista on it, logically the XP boot files would be gone now.
!!WARNING!! do not try the following without 1:1 clone/imaging of the HDD:
First, less risky approach would be to get the proper ntdetect.com, ntldr, boot.ini to both vista & xp partition (unless you are sure which it's going to be looking them for) and then try to see if you can get the XP menu pop up after selecting it from Vista boot menu. Then you'd need to modify the boot.ini to select XP partition.
A more risky approach, I'd try this only if the above failed. High chance of losing access to both XP and Vista.
Vista DVD has Boot directory... run bootsect /nt52 ALL /force If that worked and you can get back to XP, you can then run bootsect /nt60 SYS /force With a ton of luck you then, in theory, might have Vista and XP in the boot menu.
"SathishS" wrote in message

Hi All,
I had 3 partitions on my 80G hard drive with C:=Win2K, D:=WinXP and E:=Data... I did a clean/format install of Vista 5365 build on the Win2K partition..
After this i am not able to boot into XP SP2 it always booted into Vista.. Then after reading the forums, i downloaded VistabootPro software and added legacy XP with D: partition..
I do get the Windows Boot Manager with Vista and XP. but i am still not able to boot into XP.. I get error 0xC000000f with info saying "The selected entry couldn't be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt".
What do i have to do to fix this ? Am i missing some steps ?
Thanks Sathish

If I understand correctly - you booted from DVD and installed on your 1st (boot) drive. Yes? If so this should get you dual booting. You don't need VistabootPro, uninstall it. You need to put the files needed to boot XP on Your Vista system drive. # Perform the following from a Command Prompt Run as administrator. D: cd \ attrib -r -h -s ntldr attrib -r -h -s ntdetect.com attrib -r -h -s boot.ini copy ntldr c:\ copy ntdetect.com c:\ copy boot.ini c:\ attrib +r +h +s ntldr attrib +r +h +s ntdetect.com attrib +r +h +s boot.ini C: cd \ edit boot.ini all rdisk(x) entries should be rdisk(1), change as necessary attrib +r +h +s ntldr attrib +r +h +s ntdetect.com attrib +r +h +s boot.ini # Configure the Vista boot process adding XP to the boot menu. Perform the following from a Command Prompt Run as administrator. cd \ bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d "Windows XP" bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=C: bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast I changed the description for Vista to mean more to me bcdedit /set {current} description "Windows Vista, Beta 2" I changed the default boot to XP so my family wouldn't get confused bcdedit /default {ntldr}
reference for bcdedit - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/85cd5efe-c349-427c-b035-c2719d4af778.mspx
"SathishS" wrote:

Hi All,
I had 3 partitions on my 80G hard drive with C:=Win2K, D:=WinXP and E:=Data... I did a clean/format install of Vista 5365 build on the Win2K partition..
After this i am not able to boot into XP SP2 it always booted into Vista.. Then after reading the forums, i downloaded VistabootPro software and added legacy XP with D: partition..
I do get the Windows Boot Manager with Vista and XP. but i am still not able to boot into XP.. I get error 0xC000000f with info saying "The selected entry couldn't be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt".
What do i have to do to fix this ? Am i missing some steps ?
Thanks Sathish

"droid" wrote in message

It's highly likely the Win2k partition was the boot partition, did you verify from diskmgmt what was the boot partition before doing anything?
If you then formatted it and installed Vista on it, logically the XP boot files would be gone now.
!!WARNING!! do not try the following without 1:1 clone/imaging of the HDD:
First, less risky approach would be to get the proper ntdetect.com, ntldr, boot.ini to both vista & xp partition (unless you are sure which it's going to be looking them for) and then try to see if you can get the XP menu pop up after selecting it from Vista boot menu. Then you'd need to modify the boot.ini to select XP partition.
A more risky approach, I'd try this only if the above failed. High chance of losing access to both XP and Vista.
Vista DVD has Boot directory... run bootsect /nt52 ALL /force If that worked and you can get back to XP, you can then run bootsect /nt60 SYS /force With a ton of luck you then, in theory, might have Vista and XP in the boot menu.

Hello, droid. I want to thank you for pointing this out. For some reason, after two weeks of playing with Vista and being rather impressed with it as a beta- all of sudden I could not boot to Vista, yesterday. The option was there, but it gave a message that "winload.exe" could not be found.
I saw your post and from XP I put in the Vista installation disk and ran "d:\boot\bootsect /nt60 F:" F, of course, being where Vista was installed looking through XP. It worked.
I believe I may have been the culprit in corrupting the boot. The only thing I did was resize Vista's partition to give it more free space. I did this with Acronis via XP. I made sure I booted back to XP so that Acronis could successfully finish the resizing. Everything seemed to go fine. However, on the next restart, Vista would not load- resizing the partition was the only thing I had done. Anyway, "d:\boot\bootsect /nt60 F:" fixed my problem. Thanks.
Take care,
Michael

Hi All,
I had 3 partitions on my 80G hard drive with C:=Win2K, D:=WinXP and E:=Data... I did a clean/format install of Vista 5365 build on the Win2K partition..
After this i am not able to boot into XP SP2 it always booted into Vista.. Then after reading the forums, i downloaded VistabootPro software and added legacy XP with D: partition..
I do get the Windows Boot Manager with Vista and XP. but i am still not able to boot into XP.. I get error 0xC000000f with info saying "The selected entry couldn't be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt".
What do i have to do to fix this ? Am i missing some steps ?
Thanks Sathish