Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Windows Vista recovery after Windows XP installation

If you have Vista installed and later you tried to install windows XP, you may not see Vista option on boot menu anymore. Here is how I solved it.

From Window XP:

- Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 from http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
- Install but do NOT run
- From command prompt go to :\Program Files\NeoSmart Technologies\EasyBCD\bin
- Run the command :  bootsect.exe –NT60 All
- Restart machine

Now the machine will boot directly to Windows Vista.

From Window Vista:

- Install and Run EasyBCD 1.7.2
- Click "Add Entry" and make a new entry for Windows XP in appropriate drive.
- Restart.

Done !

There gotta be other ways to solve this problem. But this way worked for me.