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beatz2005
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_ 		11. June 2009 @ 22:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i have 2 hard drive, the main is an IDE hdd with windows 7 installed first. some programs aren't working, so installed vista on the 2nd hard drive (SATA). The dual boot screen still came up so i could choose between the two.

I needed xp so my sound card ooud work right(installed on a new partition on my IDE hdd). Now i'm unable to dual boot, it bypasses the menu and goes straight to xp like i don't have any other OS's installed. How can i get my dual boot menu back so i can access windwos 7 again?
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hasamoder
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_ 		12. June 2009 @ 20:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Now I think this how you do It.

1. Get your Windows disk and reboot the computer to boot from the DVD.

2. Choose your language and click ?Next.? On the page that has the large ?Install? link, look in the bottom left corner for the link ?Repair my Computer.?

3. Choose your Windows installation if necessary.

4. Select the command prompt option to bring up a command line window. Type the following: (new line = ENTER)

bootrec /fixmbr
X:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force (As I recall this is the step that may not be required)
del C:\boot\bcd
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd

5. Restart the computer.

I'm not a 100% sure this will work but it should and I'm surrposing windows 7 drive is C.

Anyway hope this helps
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hasamoder
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_ 		12. June 2009 @ 20:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Or yea forgot to mention this is reinstalling the windows 7 bootloader. When you installed windows XP it overided the windows7 bootloader and installed it's own. Now what I told you above is reinstalling the windows 7 bootloader and should let you dualboot.

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