On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:19:54 -0400, Kris wrote:
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> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:01:29 -0400, Kris wrote:
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>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:41:05 -0700, Ronnie Vernon MVP wrote:
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>>> Kris
>>>
>>> Go to the following website. This utility is free and easy to use. It makes
>>> what you need to do automatic.
>>>
>>> VistaBoot Pro
>>> [url]http://www.vistabootpro.org/index.php[/url][/color]
>>
>> Thanks. It was not at all obvious what to do with this. I backed it up
>> (BCD registry backup), and poked and prodded a few other settings but
>> nothing seemed to change the Vista partition. I told it to install system
>> bootloader in the system partition and then found something in the /boot
>> folder that had been modified. I have no idea how to tell whether boot in
>> mbr is loading Vista first, or still going through the stuff on XP, other
>> than by deleting the XP parrtition[/color]
>
> nah, it's just changing stuff on the XP partition, nothing on the Vista
> partition.[/color]

I am unable to move the boot manager - that's still on the XP partition.
It aoppears that the only way to fix that it to do a full Vista install.
VISTABOOTPRO only affects the boot LOADER, not the MANAGER.[color=blue]
> Windows Boot Manager[/color]
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> identifier {bootmgr}
>[/color]
device partition=D:
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> description Windows Boot Manager[/color]
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> locale en-US
>[/color]
inherit {globalsettings}[color=blue]
>[/color]
default {current}[color=blue]
>[/color]
displayorder {current}[color=blue]
>[/color]
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}[color=blue]
>[/color]
timeout 5[color=blue]
>
>[/color]

Windows Boot Loader
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>[/color]
identifier {current}[color=blue]
>[/color]
device partition=C:[color=blue]
>[/color]
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
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> description Microsoft Windows Vista
>[/color]
locale en-US[color=blue]
>[/color]
inherit {bootloadersettings}[color=blue]
>[/color]
bootdebug No[color=blue]
>[/color]
osdevice partition=C:[color=blue]
>[/color]
systemroot \Windows[color=blue]
>[/color]
resumeobject {63588fcd-f636-11dc-bd8d-eb9902356c34}[color=blue]
>[/color]
nx OptIn[color=blue]
>[/color]
pae ForceDisable[color=blue]
>[/color]
vga No
[color=blue]
> quietboot No
>[/color]
sos No[color=blue]
>[/color]
debug No


[url]http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/126937-move-bootmgr-drive-c-drive-d.html[/url]
said "Make D: active with disk manager, then shut down and remove C:. Boot
the
system with the Vista DVD and run a startup repair."
So I booted to Paragon, hid XP, set Vista to active, booted to VistaCD, did
repair:
first time it sait there were problems do I want it to fis it -0 yes -
reboot.
Second time I got into repair and did the top choice (no more "FIXBOOT").
details said it fixed the boot mgr.
Reboot - NTLDR is missing.
Repair really gives me no other usable choices, and there's no such thing
as a recovery install, especially since there is no such thing as a
slipstreamed CD for Vista, by design.

I rebooted to Paragon CD, unhid XP, unactivated Vista, Activated XP, reboot
fine into Vista.

So I need a correct way to move boot MANAGER, or be told I have to
re-install Vista.
--
Kris
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