Hey guys.
I have just reinstalled windows on a new partition. Now I previously had a dual boot, one of which was just a wasteland which I had never got around to deleting and just left on one of my partitions.
It was finally time to do a reinstall after the amount of anomalous occurrences on my previous install forced me to do so
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So to clarify before I did this NEW install when I would boot up I already had two windows install options at startup, one of which was the said wasted install which I never used any more and the other was my main one I used every day.
I note this because I thought it may be pertinent.
The windows version I was using was xp with no service packs. This new windows install which I put on another partition, from which I'm typing from now, is windows xp service pack two.
The thing is I still want to get on to the second install because since installing this new one a vital program which I want to use crashes and I have no clue why. It was fine on the other version but not on this one.
The problem however is that once I installed this new version I lost my dual boot option and there is no dual boot screen now. I have tried pressing f5/f8 whichever it is and the current windows install comes up but neither of the other two.
Usually when I install a new install they come up automatically so I am wondering why it doesn't since installing this one? I am at a loss as to why I don't have the dual boot option...
Any ideas on how to get it back up so I can access that other windows install again? If not I think I'll just have to make yet another windows install with the older version of windows (no service packs) and see if the program I want to use will work on that.
But any ideas throw them my way.
thanks.