Cannot Dual boot anymore

I have vista on my C: drive (promary drive) and Xp mce on D: drive
(secondary hdd)
when I select Xp mce from the boot menu it fails to boot
The error message that comes up says; "winload.exe missing or corrupt"
"/windows/system32/winload.exe" any idea's ???

note; I'm using vista boot pro ver3.1

Charlie Russel has a repair article (written for XP x64 but it works the
same for XP x86) at
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64/default.aspx?p=2

"Will " <imagine_44@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have vista on my C: drive (promary drive) and Xp mce on D: drive
>(secondary hdd)
> when I select Xp mce from the boot menu it fails to boot
> The error message that comes up says; "winload.exe missing or corrupt"
> "/windows/system32/winload.exe" any idea's ???
>
> note; I'm using vista boot pro ver3.1

Thank you very much for that link, looks like it may work I'll give it a
try.

"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
news:O9ZSYwNFHHA.3776@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Charlie Russel has a repair article (written for XP x64 but it works the
> same for XP x86) at
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64/default.aspx?p=2
>
> "Will " <imagine_44@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4BC6737E-8F78-4959-8D6E-CCD02B3D1290@microsoft.com...
>>I have vista on my C: drive (promary drive) and Xp mce on D: drive
>>(secondary hdd)
>> when I select Xp mce from the boot menu it fails to boot
>> The error message that comes up says; "winload.exe missing or corrupt"
>> "/windows/system32/winload.exe" any idea's ???
>>
>> note; I'm using vista boot pro ver3.1
>
>

didn't work
your suggestion was fine and it booted to the correct drive and windows
installation However there must be something wrong with the actuall windows
installation because when I try to boot into it , it just reboots the
computerso I'm reinstalling my XP

Thank you very much anyway

"Will " <imagine_44@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4BC6737E-8F78-4959-8D6E-CCD02B3D1290@microsoft.com...
>I have vista on my C: drive (promary drive) and Xp mce on D: drive
>(secondary hdd)
> when I select Xp mce from the boot menu it fails to boot
> The error message that comes up says; "winload.exe missing or corrupt"
> "/windows/system32/winload.exe" any idea's ???
>
> note; I'm using vista boot pro ver3.1

didn't work
your suggestion was fine and it booted to the correct drive and windows
installation However there must be something wrong with the actuall windows
installation because when I try to boot into it , it just reboots the
computerso I'm reinstalling my XP

Thank you very much anyway

"Will " <imagine_44@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4BC6737E-8F78-4959-8D6E-CCD02B3D1290@microsoft.com...
>I have vista on my C: drive (promary drive) and Xp mce on D: drive
>(secondary hdd)
> when I select Xp mce from the boot menu it fails to boot
> The error message that comes up says; "winload.exe missing or corrupt"
> "/windows/system32/winload.exe" any idea's ???
>
> note; I'm using vista boot pro ver3.1

This time disconnect all external devices you can, especially usb.

"Will " <imagine_44@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:87417034-33FE-451D-903D-AF3F9FCEFDD6@microsoft.com...
> didn't work
> your suggestion was fine and it booted to the correct drive and windows
> installation However there must be something wrong with the actuall
> windows
> installation because when I try to boot into it , it just reboots the
> computerso I'm reinstalling my XP
>
> Thank you very much anyway
>
> "Will " <imagine_44@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4BC6737E-8F78-4959-8D6E-CCD02B3D1290@microsoft.com...
>>I have vista on my C: drive (promary drive) and Xp mce on D: drive
>>(secondary hdd)
>> when I select Xp mce from the boot menu it fails to boot
>> The error message that comes up says; "winload.exe missing or corrupt"
>> "/windows/system32/winload.exe" any idea's ???
>>
>> note; I'm using vista boot pro ver3.1
>