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Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
I run Vista Home Prem , Runs great. I have vista installed on one hard drive by itself , XP Home on a second Hard Drive,with 2 other storage partitions. No Duel boot setup. I installed Vista Boot Pro on the Vista drive,set vista as default drive and added xp and drive path. But I get the duel boot option when I

dual booting x64 and vista
Same thing. Restarted and entered the boot menu and the advanced chipset features - the boot devices were correct and the HD's were properly recognized. Safe mode doesn't start up - freezes with 'wait' in the bottom of the screen. I got in touch with support and entered the Vista repair option.

vista boot problem please help me
peter pe...@nowhere.net microsoft public windows vista general I dont really like VistaBootPro but it serves its purpose.......and I have no idea if it will do what you intend so here is an option. If your Mobo is capable of displaying a choice of drives to boot from when you push an F? key after the Bios Splash

Vista constantly rebooting after this week's updates - "Config
I have a computer running windows XP64 an my C drive I installed windows vista ultimate (not an upgrade edition) on a clean empty drive. here is the problem 1) start my computer without the Vista CD in the drive, it boots int XP 64 without any options, there is no way to boot into vista 2) start my computer with

Vista SP1 prerequis3te 3 endless boot loop
I'm looking for any scenario where someone who purchases an upgrade DVD from MSFT cannot boot with it and use Win RE's panoply of tools which I understand From: Nina DiBoy <n...@di.boy> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general Subject: Re: How MSFT has blocked your repairing Vista--if No DVD or Upgrade

Vista boot manager problem
Then i used the recovery DVD for windows vista and tried to install windopws vista from this. The instalation went well but when it was finished and computer restarted there was no option for dual boot. On booting vista i checked the partition where i had installed xp..I found that vista installed itself in that

dual boot xp and vista...with vista recovery dvd
After rebooting, there was no more boot menu, and POST and Splash Screen went smooth. After logging in, I checked MSCONFIG, and noticed my bootable But I want to remove all the menu choices except for my only real option to boot into which is the "Vista". BCDEDIT is not straight forward like a boot.ini file.

missing f8 boot option ?
And I understand it's suppose to be an upgrade to XP, but if I get the option to install it on another drive or partition, then I'm missing why MS cares. 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

Format 2nd HDD to add XP Dual Boot
Click the radio button next to the 'specific drive' option and set the drive for C: Vistabootpro will now install the Vista boot loader. Next click on the 'Manage OS Entries' No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or content of this mail/post.

Vista boot freeze at crcdisk.sys , can't repair
(Requires Vista DVD) Using bcdedit.exe switches from the DVD cmd prompt--menu shown below. This is a very quick useful way to repair no boot Vista, after restarting***: The F8 options in Vista are the same as XP, and the link for Safe Mode Boot options is labled XP by MSFT but they are the same for Vista (they

Duel-Boot install mess
When I launch it from within Vista, I first get an error message that " there is no vista installed, or it is on a hidden partition". .... Based on what I had read beforehand, I had expected to get the boot menu option to boot into either OS, and was surprised I did not. When I am in XP, the Vista partition shows

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
Try getting the DVD drive to load using my Vista DVD. I did this by asking the BIOS to read the CD-Rom drive to boot from. There is no option to boot from the DVD drive in the BIOS. 2. Try starting in Safe mode, Safe mode with networking, Safe mode w/ command prompt, LKG config, and normally. Same error screen. 3.

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta ...
I tried booting in safe mode and it hung at crcdisk.sys. Google found many descriptions of this problem but none of the suggested solutions have worked. Via the advanced repair options, I used the memory diagnostic tool, no problems found Disabled SATA in the bios, as suggested in some forums, but it made no

Hep meh. Hep meh.
Choosing this boot option does not - obviously - result in a boot but rather an error. If I choose the first "Vista" boot on the list the system boots to the Choosing the latter only produces an error since there is NO XP installed on D:. Once I wade through this boot mess and get to Vista it thinks it's using

chkdsk /f does not run at boot
R. McCarty PcEngWork-NoSp...@mindspring.com microsoft public windows vista general As with any PC issue, the more you do to resolve it introduces more & more variables to Via the advanced repair options, I used the memory diagnostic tool, no problems found Disabled SATA in the bios, as suggested in some forums,

Vista won't boot, kernal issues
I'm not seeing that, when I hit f8 at start up it brings me to a screen that asks me to choose a boot device? so i choose a device then keep hitting f8 then get to a screen that has 4 start up options for windows. safe mode start windows normal and so on, but no option that mentions drivers at all. what do i need

XP/Vista dual boot XP won't start from Vista boot manager
Now, what would be best way, to get it to just give me an option between Vista and XP upon booting? I sure don't want to scredw anything up, I can live with it like it is if I need to. Btw, no I did not have my main drive that XP is on unplugged when installing the Vista Ultimate full version on the new drive.

Eliminate Vista Boot Manager
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 direct, So I formatted my D drive to remove Vista but when I reboot, the Vista/Windows boot manager still thinks Vista is an option.

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
The Embedded version of XP can certainly boot from removeable media, so there's no major technical impediment - just some fine-tuning. They may have been updated for Vista - try Google. You can also boot up into Vista from the Vista installation DVD. Choose the "repair" option and then select "Command Prompt".

Vista and XP Dual Boot Hell!
I have tried to find info on a safe way to do this but I have seen a lot about how an XP/Vista dual boot setup will erase each others restore points. The State of California has no option left but to issue the following 5150 order within the next 24 hours. http://tinyurl.com/y2y66g "Yes, I am a troll" .