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Originally Posted by strezon  I'm quite new to this, and I'm very sorry if this is a stupid question but:
I've just bought a laptop with vista on it and I installed XP as a secondary OS. Now, to complete the the installation and to make a dual boot, I need the vista installation disc. I'm not sure, but on my X: partition I probably have vista, but i can't boot using that partition. With my laptop I've got vista home edition but not the cd. Is there a way (if I have the vista installation on my HDD to boot the vista from there, or I'll have to buy a cd?
-or how can I boot from (if there is one) the copy of vista from my HDD? |
You don't need a Vista DVD at all. Use EasyBCD (freeware) which you can download from
Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies.
But, before using it, set your folder options to see hidden files and to show protected operating system files. Then open Windows Explorer and go to the drive where Vista is installed. Copy the folder Boot, and the files bootmgr, boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM and ntldr and paste them to the root of your XP drive.