hey all

i just installed vista home premium on my laptop (Asus F3T). I used partion magic to format a spare partition so i could keep my xp installation also and set my xp partion as hidden so i would be sure i dont erase anything. Then i used smart boot on my UBCD the go on xp and install boot magic on my fat32 drive. After installing boot magic and rebooted all i got was a black screen and -. caracters. And as idiot i am, i didnt do a restore disk... i tried windows xp system restore and vista repair when i boot with it.

i can still use my ubcd to boot either windows but id like to fix it so bootmagic works.

any suggestions??
thanx

Hi ghost31615089,
Sorry about the delay in answering your post.

We have a great team of techs in PCHF and as this is not my area of expertise I will notify the team of your problem and they will be along to help you out shortly.

Thank you

Cart

Hi there. If you divided from the XP partition there's a chance you may have damaged the system files on that partition. Although I've never used the software you're talking about, setting XP's partition as "hidden" may also have contributed.

You do have disks for both operating systems, correct? If so, insert the Windows XP disk and try a Windows XP Repair Installation. Do the same with Vista. I've never experienced Vista's upgrade process but I imagine the steps are similar.

thanks for the reply guys

i didnt repartition the winXP, i had a seperate partition that did not have an os... i converted it to a primary an hid the xp partition so technicaly i didnt touch the xp system files...
but ill try what you suggested and post the results

hey guys
finally got it
deleted boot magic from the drive, from C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\ and finished it off with fixmbr in the XP recovery console...

all is almost fine... now i dont get to choose wich OS i boot to, all i get is vista and no previous version of windows...im gonna try a few things but a little hint would be nice

Try running the repair installation as specified in the link from my last post (Not Recovery Console) to repair Windows XP.