How To Recover Vista After XP Installation
If you have installed, say, XP, on a Vista machine, in the Boot Menu, you may no longer be able to see Vista as an option. This occurs because when a different version of Windows is installed, it rewrites the MBR to call its own boot loader.
So if you install Vista on a PC where XP is already installed, the Vista boot menu incorporates the options from the older OS’s boot menu. But, on the other hand, if you install XP on Vista, it will overwrite the MBR with one that does not recognize the newer Vista’s Boot Loader.
So if you find that Vista is missing as an option in a multi-boot computer, you can resolve this issue, as follows : (more…)
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Written by Jason on September 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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