[nexus_013]

well the pc is a
HP Pavilion a6113w
(P5LP-LE (Leonite2)

chipsets
* Northbridge: Intel 945G
* Southbridge: ICH7DH

what i did?
open disk manager
shrink the vista hard drive
now i have 3 particions
c: vista
d:hp recovery
e:raw particion
formatting e: from disk manager -one error after format*

boot xp home sp2 cd
formatting again - no error this time
copy all files setup complete
1 reboot
and system lock up in press any key part

go to bios and change sata controller from.. raid to ahpi = same error
go to bios and change sata controller from.. raid to ide = xp boot with a blue screen
something like check if you have inserted a new hardware or check for virus etc ..

wow now i can't enter to vista home
i can't enter to xp

*i dont have the vista dvd - oem pc
*i dont want lost my vista ...have a lot of documents here

any help ..?

[RootbeaR]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529
http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vi...n2k-after.html

[nexus_013]

These solutions need the vista DVD or access to the S.O

[nexus_013]

:'(

[RootbeaR]

Try booting up in safe mode.
If you can get into Vista via safe mode, make your recovery discs, if you can't do that, contact the manufacturer and ask for the discs to be sent to you.

[crjdriver]

OK, first of all you need the vista dvd in order to repair the bcd files. When you installed xp, it overwrites the vista boot files.

Next you cannot change the mode of the sata controller and expect the system to boot. While vista would probably boot after doing that, xp never will.

About the only option you have is to restore your system using the HP restore partition.

FWIW you now see why we stress backups SO much. With an image backup of your system, it would be a simple matter to restore the image and be back where you started from; with all of your docs back.

If the docs are really important, you can pull the drive and connect it to a working system. Copy the docs. Reinstall the drive and restore from the hp restore partition. Copy your docs back.