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Vista Dual Boot Installation Procedure
mikeyhsd mikey...@sport.rr.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance if that is an option and you do not care about the xp, then format all the drives and install vista on the I tried disconnecting the XP drive altogether, booting from Vista CD, and trying a repair but it flagged up no errors.

Vista boot freeze at crcdisk.sys , can't repair
I have the NForce Vista 64 bit beta drivers from the NVidia website. If I start the install from the boot DVD, there's no option to install extra drivers. If I start the DVD from within Win XP x64, it shows the little disk icon and I can install the SATA RAID drivers from the floppy. Unfortunately, after the system

Cannot Change Boot Order
But Boot.ini knows nothing at all about Vista! When booting with a Vista boot sector, the computer finds the file bootmgr (no extension) in the Root of the System Partition and Step 2: Use BCDEdit.exe (or msconfig.exe or some third-party tool such as EasyBCD) to remove the WinXP option from Vista's OS menu.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Installed Vista Bootloader using system bootloader tab, selected C drive, which is what my XP is installed, and still just boots directly into XP, no boot menu option to choose XP or Vista. I just can't seem to get this to work properly in that way. -- Don "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnho...@comcast.net> wrote in

Re-install XP on a dual boot XP/Vista PC
Could you please try resize ntfsfix vista boot and resize mount delete /pagefile.sys umount ntfsfix vista boot # ntfsfix /dev/sda1 Mounting volume... FAILED Attempting to correct errors. Attached 3 screenshots that show Vista's chkdsk output. Thanks, no strange thing here. Cheers, Szaka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

recovering from disk crash...
Un able to change drive letter to D: in windows vista home basic? Believe this is reason I can't boot both systems. I can get to windows xppro if I use install cd and go to recovery and fix boot. After I reboot to vista home basic dvd and do repair startup. reboot and get options for both operating systems.

Uninstall Vista w/out loosing data
Up to this point, procedure for dual boot is okay - at this point Vista boot manager would offer option to start Legacy prior windows (XP) or Vista. The author has no interest in or connection with the http://www.vistabootpro.org/ The Vista bcdedit.exe boot load editor tool is, at a minimum, cumbersome to use.

Vista Premium OEM repair due upgrade
Dustin Harper dhar...@vistarip.com microsoft public windows vista general If you boot from the Vista DVD, you will be given the option for Startup Repair. otherwise I have no boot manager -I need to delete linux and tell my boot sector to use the vista boot manager and not the missing grub one Any and all help

Vista constantly rebooting after this week's updates ...
After using it for a day I decided that there is no reason to move to Vista. The UI changes are frustrating. There are WAY too many hoops to go through to do simple tasks, like mapping a drive, doing a Windows Update (No, I *NEVER* want automatic updates). So I went through the process of removing the Vista boot

reinstalling vista
No options to select, can't use it as a repair disk. Tried booting XP MCE from disk, and it wouldn't work at all. Anyways, maybe someone can tell me what's the likely culprit. I'd like to get at least something bootable. By the way, I've run the Vista Compatibility program and I had no conflicts. It should load.

Vista 64 - strange boot up
Paul-B p...@rasf1.net microsoft public windows vista general Aethelwulf wrote: Hello everyone, I just noticed how clever most of you seem to be, and since Dell has no clue, I wanted to see if maybe you guys could help me figure this problem out. I have gone through all sorts of tests with Dell, and after 7 hours of

Yee-Haa!! 5.25-inch USB floppy!
I used a Windows Vista reinstallation DVD from another system to boot my problem PC. Then I tried unsucessfully to get Vista to either correct the problem or go back to a previous working state. When these options did not work the tech had me go to a COMMAND prompt and rename the pending.xml file.

Vista 64 dual boot changing drive letter
I've formatted and re-installed 3 times and every time I still get a dual boot option. I've not had a problem getting a dual boot going back to RC1. The author has no interest in or connection with the http://www.vistabootpro.org/ The Vista bcdedit.exe boot load editor tool is, at a minimum, cumbersome to use.

XP/Vista dual boot XP won't start from Vista boot manager
No one has said that only the MBR had to be changed to "fix your problem". (Please note that it is not I who has the problem of the inquiring poster. In order to do that, you'll have to boot from the Vista DVD | Repair Options | Command Prompt. bootrec.exe /fixmbr bootrec.exe /fixboot bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd

No boot option when installed Windows 2000 on Vista machine
Selecting Vista from GRUB (behaviour was same before adding Linux / GRUB) the Vista Boot Manager presents Vista and XP options but if I select XP option I am recycled back to the same Boot Manager option screen. It is as if the Vista boot manager thinks XP is where Vista actually is and hence boots into itself

Vista constantly rebooting after this week's updates ...
No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable for any Click the radio button next to the 'specific drive' option and set the drive for C: Vistabootpro will now install the Vista boot loader.

missing f8 boot option ?
Ever since, the boot process stops on an early page giving me the unwanted opton of choosing which Vista I want to boot: the working one or the bad one. I have no interest in the defective image and would like to fully delete it -- from the disk and from the boot option. I don't know the keywords to use in

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Jon Email_Addr...@SomewhereOrOther.com microsoft public windows vista general "somethingsomeone" <somethingsomeone.2v1...@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message I am very frustrated as im stuck with either always going to start windows normally command or have the no advanced options and having to set the bcdedit

Error message on boot up
Unlike this guy I will tell you how : You need the vista dvd inserted and boot your computer from that Dvd instead of its Harddisk. Then the Setup-environment is loading and Vista will offer you to set it up, but there is another option, "repair your PC" - and this is what you want to select, because here is

Vista constantly rebooting after this week's updates - "Config
I want to recover win vista. Can i see both like 2 boot option manu. Or i want to recover only win vista. so how to uniinstall it and recover win vista. Please help me as soon as possible i have exam on friday.i cant use my laptop. Please reply me also in kruanlme...@gmail.com ================================ No