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Old 03-26-2008, 07:20 AM
VitasLoWang
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Re: How change from dual boot to single boot Vista?

On 25 Bře, 02:05, Kris <a...@b.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:19:54 -0400, Kris wrote:[color=green]
> > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:01:29 -0400, Kris wrote:[/color]
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> >> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:41:05 -0700, Ronnie Vernon MVP wrote:[/color][/color]
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> >>> Kris[/color][/color]
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> >>> Go to the following website. This utility is free and easy to use. It makes
> >>> what you need to do automatic.[/color][/color]
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> >>> VistaBoot Pro
> >>>[url]http://www.vistabootpro.org/index.php[/url][/color][/color]
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> >> 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][/color]
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> > 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.> Windows Boot Manager
>
> --------------------
>[color=green]
> > identifier * * * * * * *{bootmgr}[/color]
>
> device * * * * * * * * *partition=D:
>[color=green]
> > description * * * * * * Windows Boot Manager
> > locale * * * * * * * * *en-US[/color]
>
> inherit * * * * * * * * {globalsettings}
>
> default * * * * * * * * {current}
>
> displayorder * * * * * *{current}
>
> toolsdisplayorder * * * {memdiag}
>
> timeout * * * * * * * * 5
>
>
>
> Windows Boot Loader
> -------------------
>
> identifier * * * * * * *{current}
>
> device * * * * * * * * *partition=C:
>
> path * * * * * * * * * *\Windows\system32\winload.exe
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> > description * * * * * * Microsoft Windows Vista[/color]
>
> locale * * * * * * * * *en-US
>
> inherit * * * * * * * * {bootloadersettings}
>
> bootdebug * * * * * * * No
>
> osdevice * * * * * * * *partition=C:
>
> systemroot * * * * * * *\Windows
>
> resumeobject * * * * * *{63588fcd-f636-11dc-bd8d-eb9902356c34}
>
> nx * * * * * * * * * * *OptIn
>
> pae * * * * * * * * * * ForceDisable
>
> vga * * * * * * * * * * No
>[color=green]
> > quietboot * * * * * * * No[/color]
>
> sos * * * * * * * * * * No
>
> debug * * * * * * * * * No
>
> [url]http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/126937-move-bootmgr-drive-c-dri[/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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Old 03-26-2008, 07:20 AM