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Originally posted by Mike

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Originally posted by djdannyp
XP's bootloader won't load vista, you'll have to find a way to fix vista's bootloader

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I'm trying to boot XP from Vista's bootloader not Vista from XP's

My problem is that XP won't boot after installing Vista (safe mode also doesn't work).
I did the same thing in VMWare (1 primary, 1 logical, shrank primary and installed vista to the new partition) and XP wouldn't even boot after using fixboot/fixmbr .

I believe it is because XP is on a logical partition...

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Originally posted by djdannyp
I installed Vista over XP on my old computer and didn't have any problems with it so it should be easy enough to sort out

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Yep. I've also done this quite a few time and I never had a problem (expect this time )

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Yeah, i mentioned Vista not being able to be loaded from XP's bootloader as I believe that using an XP cd to fixboot or fixmbr will only work for XP's bootloader, not Vista's.....that's what that bit was in reference to.

If you can get into Vista then can't you edit the partition in there to change it to a primary partition or something?