Problem with Boot Inspiron 1720

Well, I searched and read on this forum on dual boot Windows Vista and XP until I can't read more.

I tried my best for a couple of different ways I've seen here and on the web, but still unsuccessful.

I even bought Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 and tried their way without success.  I even went the route that included VistaBootPro download.  I have since deleted the XP install and have only Vista running.

Well, for some reason any I could sense at the time, I deleted the recovery partition and it merged with the Vista partition.  Now I have the hidden Dell, my Vista Partition partition and a 3rd partition of waiting in the wing for a successful installation of XP.  Now, when I boot, I have two options to choose to boot from:

(1) Vista Home Premium

(2) to the operating system on drive C

I tried startup repair in Vista from the CD/DVD drive, even to try the bootrec.exe commands, but nothing seems to get rid of option 2 and just boot in vista like him 'used '.

Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this problem?

Honestly, I copied all my files on my desktop and am about to try first, a new installation of XP and Vista.  I'm pretty computer savy, although not a complete expert by any means, and I do not remove the entire disk and try again.  I think that I can still have access to a USB floppy drive, something I thought I would never need to use.

I, oddly enough, a bit like Vista, but I need XP to run software to work that will never be Vista supported.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I will check back tomorrow to see if anyone has any suggestions.

Much obliged, Jerry


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