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by irishbear

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I had windows xpx64 as my primary o/s and windows vista as the second. I was having some trouble with drivers on the WinXP x64 and decided to put on WindwosXP x32 as I had vista nearly comlete with 64 bit drivers, only driver I could not get was my webcam, but on vista I could live with that. I done a complete backup of WinXP x64 before installing winXp x32, as well as the boot sector on it's own. I forgot to backup the boot ini setings, so now after installing WindowsXp x32 I do not get the menu for booting to (Older version of Windows)Xp x64 or Vista. How would I go about getting the duel boot working instead of having to install Vista x64 again. I used Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2008 Professional to backup my 64bit WinXP and boot sector. But when I try now to restore the boot sector it says (you cannot do this on this system) If anybody could point me in the righ direction with this problem I would be very greatfull.
I used to use Acronis to backup my system and with , you could explore the image by mounting the image as a disk, but I can't get at indivual files with Paragon.

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by neon samurai

I'd install the win98 partition first. Once it was booting and configured, I'd install the winNT partition. WinNT was smart enough to see the win98 and generate a boot menu. If you did the install in the reverse order, win98 wouldn't see the second OS and the second OS, being installed already, would not have reason to look for win98 to generate the boot menu afterward.

A third party multi-boot tool may also be worth looking into. I believe there was one included with symantec's tools back in the day though I can't remember the name of it.

I don't have 64bit windows running currently or I'd provide a more detailed and focused response.

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