Cant use vista

izzy007 · 28-12-2006, 06:58 PM

well i had vista installed on one partition and i installed media centre ed. on another partition and now it doenst give me options on which os to boot. i tried f8 and list os's and it only displays MCE.
do i have to fixmbr?
getting a bit frustrated
thnx

izzy007 · 28-12-2006, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by izzy007

well i had vista installed on one partition and i installed media centre ed. on another partition and now it doenst give me options on which os to boot. i tried f8 and list os's and it only displays MCE.
do i have to fixmbr?
getting a bit frustrated
thnx

well i figured out that watever drive i set as active in disk management is the drive that boots but how do i set the select os from the before starting windows like it should be.

*EDIT* (21:45)
FIXED
solved

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