I bought Vista Ultimate (came with the 32/64bit disks) due needing something to play games and and thinking that vista would last me. Problem: My CD's are cracked physically, so how do I get them replaced?
View 4 RepliesBitlocker and Bitlocker for Windows 7 are supposed to be great at preventing stolen disks or stolen computers from having their disks compromised by being installed in another computer (or by booting the computer with another OS).
But, if you steal a computer, there are lots of tools on the 'net that will crack logon passwords. How does Bitlocker help in these situations? If someone can crack the logon password, then they *are* the person that the BitLocker disks are decrypted for.
When I've installed vista, the installation have set the boot manager to be on a different disk than the the boot loader. Now, if I want to remove the hard drive containing the boot manager, the system won't load, which is reasonable given these conditions, nonetheless I DO want to remove this hard drive and still be able to boot, therefore I've searched and queried everywhere and done the following: Physically disconnected the hard drive with the boot manager on it (d and boot with the Vista DVD to run startup repair -> this didn't help, the startup repair found the operation system but didn't recognize any problem, when trying to boot the system would not load, the error I'm getting when booting is disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del to restart.
(reconnected d:, and system boots flawlessly, then) I've manually changed the boot manger (and memory diagnostic, the only other bcd entry on the d: drive) location with bcdedit to c:, and now bcdedit (and VistaBootPro) show the boot manager (and memory diagnostic) in the c: drive, HOWEVER, if I try to boot from that drive I get the same error: disk read error.................