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Last answer on May 7, 2009 6:10:11 am BST akramktk, on May 6, 2009 6:00:13 am BST 
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Hello,
I have Toshiba Notebook with pre vista but i want to use dual os i.e xp also, therefore, I installed xp, but vista is not working now.how i can recover boot loader of vista to boot dual operating system.Anybody help will be highly appreciated. Thanks

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Akram Khattak.

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u_fil, on May 6, 2009 9:01:21 am BST

Hi,
for dual boot, you must have 2 partitions.
then you will be able to do this.
if you have overwrite XP over Vista, i guess that it s lost.
try to do a system restore to see if it fixes the problem.

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 akramktk, on May 7, 2009 6:10:11 am BST

Hi,
I have two partition already i.e C: and D: but vista was installed in c: and then xp is installed in D: partition now. Now xp is working fine but my vista is not able to boot. so how to recover the boot loader to boot both xp and vista.

Thanks

Akram Khattak

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