XP home fali to Boot

[cbshahji]

I have three hard drive, one with xp home, one with xp pro and one with windows vista, after installing vista i can boot xp pro and vista but can't boot xp home, is there a way i can boot xp home.

I did boot in xp pro and formated hard drive which had vista in it and erased vista. so now i don't have vista, though i can boot in xp pro but not in home

[jdrom17]

Why would you want XP Home and XP Pro? Seems kinda pointless. Just use XP Pro and scrap XP Home.

I think they only way your going to get both working is to use an alternative boot loader not made by Microsoft.

[cbshahji]

I use all three, because i am new at computer and i am still learning difference between three things, also the xp pro i am using is not genuine, on the other hand xp home and vista ultimate x64bit is, however, xp pro has all my doc and since it's on 1TB of hard drive, i don't have enough space on other hard drive to move all my doc, it around 589GB, and i have two 160GB hard drive more which has xp home and vista ultimate, however, i also have some doc in xp home which i forget to took out, but they are not important, yet i was wondering if i can boot it and get them out. doesn't has to work, but if it don't work i want to formate this drive so i can use extra space, and if i can boot it then i want to keep it.

"I think they only way your going to get both working is to use an alternative boot loader not made by Microsoft."

I understand what you are saying, and stupid me didn't think of this since there is a way to boot in xp pro on microsoft page. It would be helpful if you can tell me where can i find it (well i can just google it, but it will save me time and some health if you just tell me, No i am not lazy (JK))

Thanks for all the help.
CBSHAHJI (I know it isn't an E-mail)

[AlphaChicken]

I use all three, because i am new at computer and i am still learning difference between three things, also the xp pro i am using is not genuine, on the other hand xp home and vista ultimate x64bit is, however, xp pro has all my doc and since it's on 1TB of hard drive, i don't have enough space on other hard drive to move all my doc, it around 589GB, and i have two 160GB hard drive more which has xp home and vista ultimate, however, i also have some doc in xp home which i forget to took out, but they are not important, yet i was wondering if i can boot it and get them out.

^^Longest sentence ever lolz.

Anyway. you should be able to access all your files on one partition from another one. As long as they share the same file system, which they should seeing as they're all windows partitions (NTFS file system). You dont really need to use xp pro and home to see the differences as most of the differences between the two are in coding and how each uses hardware. You cant actually see most of the differences.

Really you should scrap one it would save you alot of trouble.

To get all the files off of the non-booting partition, you should just be able to use them/access them/move them right from your other Operating Systems like i said earlier. This should solve your prob unless there's something im overlooking.

[jdrom17]

http://gag.sourceforge.net/index.html

I believe that was recommended on Call for Help. Should do what you want I guess. I think most partitioning programs also have a feature to do this.

[cbshahji]

http://gag.sourceforge.net/index.html

This software will allow me to get back into xp home, because seriously i want to remove vista and put xp home, and also clear other hard dirves, i order some more hard drive so ican back up data and clear xp pro and use only one os.