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I had XP installed, installed Vista on top of it and had a nice dual boot setup for a while. Had to install a fresh copy of XP (formattted drive C) (Vista resides on E), and now have lost the dual boot configuration. I followed this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529/en-us

but it still just boots XP.

My question is, how do I modify XP so that it transfers control to bootmgr.exe instead of ntldr.exe? Can anyone help on exactly what happens when you have a dual boot and XP is your main drive? I'm interested in knowing how XP knows about the Vista boot menu.

Well, one PC, two HDDs, the first HDD Windows XP on, and the 2nd HDD Vista Ultimate. I'd like to know how to set up dual boot, when turn on PC to get boot menu to select XP or Vista.

Thanx in advance

First of all, I'm sorry if this is a double-post. I *think* I posted a similar message a few days ago, but I was having trouble with registration/login and can't seem to find my post or my account, so I'm not sure what happened.

The problem I'm having is related to the Vista backup (Vista Ultimate x64). Here is my setup. I installed XP Pro on a RAID0 array (298GB), and after that I installed Vista x64 on another hard drive (232GB), so Vista is able to see both OS's and installed it's boot menu. I'm at the point where I've got all my software installed and my PC has been running smoothly for a while so I need to do a complete backup. I have an external 120GB drive (small, I know) that I want to backup my Vista hard drive to - I really could care less about XP and is only there if I *need* it.

I have XP Pro SP2 on this machine and Vista (I installed it on a second partition)...ran the setup through Windows, so Vista is on "drive" V: now.

Even in Vista everythings running under drive v: so I'm guessing Microsoft is not forcing us to use drive c: anymore.

What I want to know is, how do I get rid of XP Pro without messing up my system? It is currently on my c: drive. In the boot menu I have 2 options, so I don't want to damage this either. Also I want to resize my c: partition and mix it with v: so it will be just one big partition again.

All the applications I've installed went to v:\program files\