hi william,

i first dual booted vista after installing XP and it worked fine.
my XP was on drive C and Vista was on E....both were 64bit OS'es
today I downgraded my XP to 32bit and all this horrible things happenned but I saw your great article and managed to get to step 3. the thing is that I still no matter how I do step 3, the dual boot for vista won't show up and i'm stuck on XP. I also tried doing "bcdedit" on XP but it kept telling me it was not recognized. So I checked and realized that the file itself is not there. Can you please help on what is going on ? I've been trying to get it right for a long time now.....thanks william.....