ok. so frustrated. I have a hard drive with what was a fully functional xp pro system installed. I decided to format my 2nd hard drive and put vista ult on it. Cool. that worked fine, not problems there. Now when i restart my comp, it doesn't give me the option of booting into xp.
I read up on the mbr and ntldr issues about installing one before the other/ and the other way around. So i had that right, the xp before the vista, because vista incorperates the xp bootloader into vistas newly "revamped" system. NOT the case.
Please shed some light on this... i have tried to remove the vista hd and boot just from the xp drive...something about corrupt ntldr so right now i'm in the process of mending that.
And by the way i'm able to access my hd from vista. it just doesn't recognize an os is installed...
I read up on the mbr and ntldr issues about installing one before the other/ and the other way around. So i had that right, the xp before the vista, because vista incorperates the xp bootloader into vistas newly "revamped" system. NOT the case.
Please shed some light on this... i have tried to remove the vista hd and boot just from the xp drive...something about corrupt ntldr so right now i'm in the process of mending that.
And by the way i'm able to access my hd from vista. it just doesn't recognize an os is installed...