Dual Booting with Win 7

[BarrieNoodles]

About a year ago I installed Win 7 (on its' own HD) as dual boot on my computer. At that time I could boot into Vista or Win 7, no problem. Since I installed all my new software on to Win 7, I stopped using Vista and it is listed as drive G. I have some older Income Tax programs loaded onto the Visa drive that I need to use to do back taxes but now it wont let me boot with VIsta. When I restart the computer I get the screen showing both hard drives but when I press CTRL + I only Win 7 is displayed as a choice. What do I need to do to be able to get back into Vista?

 

[usasma]

Boot to Win7
Create a repair disc (Start...All Programs...Maintenance...Create a System Repair Disc)
Boot from the repair disk
Select the Command Prompt entry from the menu
Type these commands - press ENTER after each one

bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /rebuildbcd

That should recognize the Vista installation and allow you to boot to it. If not, post back here and we'll try other stuff.

 

[BarrieNoodles]

Thanks for the help. Since Vista is on drive G: do I still run these commands in C: (Win7)?

 

[usasma]

Just open the command prompt and type them right there.
No specifying C: or G: (I think the disk will default to X: ).

 

[BarrieNoodles]

THANK YOU, Thank You, thank you, oh master of Window's OS. Your wizardry has saved me countless hours doing back taxes manually. I the future I will buy them at Staples so I have a CD I can load onto another or new computer.
Now I remember why I stopped booting into Vista.... it will not shut down, I get a Vista Ultimate screen "Shutting Down" but it just keeps on running at that screen all night. I have to pull the plug to re-boot.
Thank you agin. :D

 

[usasma]

Try and give us this report from within Vista (even though you're not reporting BSOD's) and we'll see what we can do: http://www.vistax64.com/crashes-debugging/282419-blue-screen-death-bsod-posting-instructions.html