Re: Restoring XP Restore Point from Vista?

As I stated in the first post, I still see my old boot menu. XP loads up
until the "Starting Windows" screen and hangs. Any ideas?

"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

So if the problem started this morning what exactly are you experiencing?
You switch on the computer and it loads the boot menu. You then select XP
from the boot menu and then what happens? If XP doesn't appear on the boot
menu then it is a bootloader issue.

Any error messages?


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"Ruwiten7" <Ruwiten7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've actually had both OS's installed for quite some time, I just wanted
to
do a full migration to Vista today. I've been able to boot into XP
(Default)
up until this AM, so it's not a bootloader issue. I just haven't explored
Vista indepth. The rationale for the complete migration is I'm called apon
to
support some features of Vista and the best way, as it sounds like you
know,
to learn a proggy or OS is just to dive in and start using it. So, I'm
"Vista
Challenged" but wanted to start changing that today. I can still see my
"C"
Drive from Vista and can move some data via that method, but would really
like to boot into XP to perform some Exports that I'm about two weeks
behind
for. Basically all I need to know is if there is a method to use the XP
System Restore, or a viable alternative, from within Vista to see if that
will cure my ills.
Thanks for the prompt reply and I sincerely hope you have a solution for
me :)
Ruwiten7

"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

Let me get this straight, you still have your copy of XP on another
partition on your hard drive? If this is the case, when you installed
Vista
Windows Vista overwrote the XP bootloader. XP is still there, its just
that,
at the moment, you can't see it. Use VistaBootPro (Manage OS Entries Tab)
to
add XP to the bootloader menu and then you should be able to boot into
either XP or Vista.


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"Ruwiten7" <Ruwiten7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for being here to assist, and I hope this is the correct group.
I've
been running XP Pro for quie some time and recently installed Vista
using
Partition Magic and have also installed Vista BootPro. I planned a full
migration of all of my data from XP today but cannot boot into XP for
some
reason. I was going to export or save vital data from XP, so this is
quite
a
bummer. I cannot enter Safe Mode nor use Last Known Good Config options
for
XP. My box makes it up to the "Starting Windows" screen and hangs
there.
After exporting the data I require from XP and saving to disk I was
going
to
manually install all of my progs into Vista (Quite a plan for the 4th,
huh?)
Is there a method to utilize an XP Restore Point from Vista to enable
me
to
boot into XP?
Thanks in advance for any assistance you may provide!
Ruwiten7



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