Make Drive Bootable?
Mar 26, 2008
I have a dual boot setup where I boot from the first HD and start XP/Vista. Vista is installed on a separate disk. I don't use XP at all and want to remove that disk, but then I need to make the Vista disk bootable. The Vista install is on a raid volume. I googled a little bit and found some information about bootrec and tried to boot from the DVD and tried /fixboot, but nothing happens. When I load the recovery console it doesn't display any Vista installations, so I wasn't very surprised that bootrec failed. I then proceeded to load the driver for the raid controller, but still no installations are displayed. Is there a simple way to make a disk bootable for Vista - on a raid volume?
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May 25, 2008
My friend just bought an Acer computer with Vista SP1 on it. It came with no literature or CDs. Is there a way he can make a bootable CD with Vista Sp1 on it for emergencies?
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Mar 26, 2008
I have dual boot and Vista is installed on drive D. I want to disconnect (remove) C drive and make D the only disk. How can I make it bootable? I do not have any programs installed yet.
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Mar 23, 2008
I have dual boot and Vista is installed on drive D. I want to disconnect (remove) C drive and make D the only disk. How can I make it bootable? I do not have any programs installed yet.
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May 7, 2008
I had a fire a few months back which burnt my Acer T180 case. I've managed to change the case and get all the parts working again except the DVD rom which was melted and beyond repair. As my whole house is wireless I'm not really bothered about getting a new DVD rom - my other PC controls the network and has a DVD writer inside. Once vista is installed the network will take care of everything.
My problem now is how do I reinstall Vista on a PC that has no DVD rom to read my Vista DVD. OK I could swap my DVD around for a few hours by its covered in warranty void stickers and as its new I don't want to risk anything. Is there anyway to convert a Bootable DVD into a Bootable USB drive? I've got a 4 Gig stick which should be fine. My motherboard also boots from USB. I've managed to make a copy of the vista DVD into ISO image but can't find a program that will put the ISO onto a USB drive.
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Aug 21, 2008
I have this 2.0 gb thumb drive that was given to me. How can I tell if it's bootable or not. It does not have a brand name on it.
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May 10, 2008
I want to have 2 desktop computers, one in the city, one in the country, and carry one bootable USB drive between them. (And I would backup to a cloned, serial SATA drive, internal). I heard that from a HP support person that microsoft is planning to create this possibility in the future. What do you know about this. (And what searchable phrases might reveal their plans).
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Jul 16, 2009
I reallllly wanna try out windows 7 RC. But i only have 1 computer. Is it possible for me to make anew disk drive(like using MagicISO or some-other program like that(other may be familar that that stuff) But is it possible? because i dont wanna mess up my laptop... But i wanna check out the latest RC's before pre-ordering W7. (but then their the problem of dual booting? I dont get how that would work if i jst make another disk drive)(?)
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May 14, 2009
I just got my new build up and running late last night and during Vista installation, I did not make any partitions to my main system drive. I would like to make a couple, maybe one for Windows and programs and one for dedicated swap space. My main question is do you think it would be best just to reinstall windows and do it from there? Or just as good to use Disk Management to do it?
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Jun 8, 2008
I have an external drive on my vista machine that has gives "Users" full control. I just found out that the guest account is part of the "Users" group. Is there a group that does not include the guest account? Basically I don't want to have my backup drive accessible to the guest account. Is that possible without replacing "Users" with each individual account?
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Apr 8, 2009
I have a HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop computer. HP Total Care Advisor tells me only 4% is free on drive C. I ran disk defragmentation, disk cleanup, and uninstalled a good amount of programs I no longer use. It did not do anything. Once and awhile I get a prompt in the bottom right corner saying that I have low disk space. When I click on it it wants to run disk cleanup which does absolutely nothing. How do I free up space and make my computer perform the best it can?
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May 22, 2008
I had a bootable DVD from a friend of Vista Ultimate upgrade or fresh install. I had Home Premium pre-installed. I upgraded to the Ultimate through "Upgrade" and it was successful. But I lent the DVD to a friend, and I have now realised I want to reinstall. I have a non-bootable exact copy of the bootable disc. I can start fresh install from inside Windows, but I am wondering if it will work.
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Oct 8, 2008
i ask if someone may know of a way to create a bootable USB flash drive with a OEM Vista recovery CD. coz as you know now adays laptops have a recovery cd which is liable to be lost or scratched and the worse senario is when you had deleted the recovery partition. in that case your only hope is to order a new set of recovery cd from manufacturer which in my case didnt restore the recovery partition thats why i need to recover the system from an usb flash drive.
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May 13, 2009
Looking for any information on prefered method for installing XP and/or Vista *to* a USB (8 gig) memory stick. The stick is to be used for troubleshooting purposes (ie booting up and scanning inoperative systems).
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Feb 13, 2010
the thread title says it all: I'm looking for a lightweight bootable command prompt which supports ntfs drives and supports x64 command line tools. Something like Freedos x64 or command.com x64 (if they existed which unfortunately they don't).
So far, all I can do is to boot into Windows' own command shell, but this is far from being lightweight. Every Linux supports booting into a pure command line mode, so there must be something similar for Windows with x64 support. Basically, the recovery console would suffice if it allowed using external command line tools, but afaik this is not the case.
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Apr 12, 2008
I got vista given to me *_Leagly_* by a friend and have bought a serial. I want to make a copy of the disc incase the other one gets damaged. I just copied the files of the disc from the oringal disc from my dvd drive to another DVD-RW disc in another DVD-RW Drive. All the files are on there and when i run setup from an OS (like XP since i have vista and xp dual booting on my pc) it works fine. But when i try to boot from it it wont boot. I have set my DVD Drive to my 1st boot device and it will boot from the oringal alright but not the copied one. What am i doing wrong?
I currently dont have access to the oringal at this time but i have the files on the copied one. What do i have to do too the disc to make it bootable. i no this is vista 64 forums but mine is 32 bit. I dont want crapy posts from people saying anything about piracy and i tryied googleing it but without avale.
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Jun 2, 2009
I had a working Vista, but I had an issue with it and had to reinstall (because that is the solution to everything with windows). So I installed another Vista to another partition, but the problem is that the new Vista doesn't have the files required to boot because the older partition has. So how can I make my C: (new Vista) as bootable and delete D: (old Vista)?
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Apr 23, 2009
I recently install new hdd 500gb seagate, i install windows vista home prem sp1 , when i try to boot the system IT FREEZED on booting on black screen and it shows all the hardware install when put any bootable cd and boot the system, system boots fine, i had same issue with old sansung 80gb hdd, i have to keep the bootable cd in optical drive to boot the system, i also tried reseat the cables from optical drive but did not work, my optical drive works fine after boot in windows
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Jan 1, 2008
I'm looking for a backup program for Vista Home Premium that allows booting from DVD or CD-ROM in order to restore backups stored on DVD or CD-ROM.
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Mar 26, 2008
I have downloaded Windows Vista Ultimate,and I burned to a CD but I forgott tu make it bootable,so I installed it like a software ,and it works fine.I installed it several times since I downloaded it and always go OK,but last time my windows was damaged,and I was unable to go in,so the only solution was to format my computer.I was not unable to install my Windows Vista Ultimate that I had downloaded because it was not bootable,so I bought e new Vista but with version Home Basic.I installed this windows,but after two days one update come in my computer and told me that my windows is pirated (fallse).
When I readed this,I wanted to install my Vista Ultimate like every time,but didn't work,I tried 4 times and still not worked,it showed me that Windows was not successfully installed,and it turned me back to Vista Home Basic.Now I tried to upgrade to my Vista Ultimate,all steps go OK,but to the step "Completing Upgrade"one error appeared "Windows could not configure one or more features.Please restart your computer and then restart the installation".
I have go to Microsoft Support,and I readed that I must disable some features, I have do that and when I tried to upgrade again,it stoped to the step "Expanding Files-21%" and showed me this error"Windows cannot install required files.Make sure all files for the installation are available and restart the installation.Error code:0x800706F8".I don't know what to do now when before I have disable some features,didn't shows me this error and all things go fine until step"Completing Upgrade".
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Aug 3, 2008
I purchased my Vista through the Windows website and used the download option. I would like to have a hard copy installation disc. Is it possible to create a Vista disc from the download files?
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Jun 22, 2009
I'm on my pc playing games and being bored everything fine and whatever. Got tired so I shut my pc off and then went to bed, ect. Got up in the morning turned my pc on and said it couldnt find a bootable disk or w/e it says when it finds no OS. (what ever happened also killed my Win7x64 on my other HDD)
I have 2 Seagate 500GB HDD each with a 32MB Cache. So what I did was formatted the win7 hdd and instead of x64 went x32 and got win7 back on. Now I was thinking that the HDD was completely dead and couldnt have anything done with it until today a friend of mine told me he had something similar happen and then his dad put some program on his computer and it fixed everything. Now if this is the case for me then I really would love to get this sorted out because this HDD has all my data from work on different things over the last 2 years and none of it is backed up.
Oh and the HDD that died has windows Vista Basicx32 on it. So basically I need to know if there is a possiblity that my HDD isn't dead and I can revive it and still use it. And if I can then how would I go about doing this?
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Jul 30, 2009
I just built a new computer and am trying to load and DVD OEM Vista ultimate x64 OS. I have 4 SATA hard disks and 1 SATA Sony bdu-x10s blu-ray drive. I have configured the 4 HDDs in Bios for RAID0. I also set BIOS to boot from the Sony drive only.
When I put the Vista disk in and power on the computer I notice that it loads the HDDs very quickly and sits on the Sony for a long time ~30 seconds. then it checks the disk and says no bootable media found. I observed that if I remove the disk and power on the computer the Sony drive loads just as quickly as the HDDs
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Mar 14, 2010
I will start at the beginning as think always the best way. My first disk has partitions C/D My C drive is rapidly running out of space 30GB allocated to C on a 160GB drive rest is drive D I want to resize it so I've got about 60GB on C Windows will not let me shrink the D drive, and then expand the C drive, as it has page files on it. So what I have done using Acronis is clone Disk C/D to another much bigger disk, creating partions E/F. What I would like to do is now make the first partition E, which is a clone of C, bootable so that I can then format partitions C/D then reclone E/F back to C/D after sizing them more prudently. I cannot find how to make E bootable if in fact it is?
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May 2, 2008
I am Using Vista Ultimate 64. I would like to tranfer my entire drive incuding all files and the Operating system From my current IDE HDD to a new SATA Drive of the sames size (500 Gig) I need the IDE Drive for an older computer ( The 40 Gig IBM Deathstar still functions great, but all programs seem more bloated these Days)
Anyway I went to Administrative Tools and Formated the New Drive NFTS with no Drive Letter. But I cannot get it recognized as a transfer device when I go to system backup. Can I use 'C' on the second and soon to be only drive? If I have to use E or F for now can I change it back later. would that affect the file system? I intend to Low level Format the IDE and try cloning the old machine's XP Drive (32 bit) to it in the second place.
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Jan 2, 2010
I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C drive, programmes are loaded onto the d drive while i have my data stored on my E drive. By default any documents I save are directed towards My Documents on the C drive - how I go about changing that so the default is my Documents on the E drive?
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Apr 13, 2008
Make Windows 7 a *completely* 64-bit operating system. Most modern processors (the ones that'll meet the min requirements) are 64-bit capable. This will be the final step in securing a 64-bit standard! This will incline software developers to make more, if not most, programs 64-bit.
I fail to understand why they feel the need to convince people who are happy with Vista that they are wrong. That is aside from the self-esteem issues they must have ;-)" This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
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Jun 8, 2008
How can I make IE always run as administrator? If not I can't print from it. Can from XP with same AVG8 & ZA. John the West Ham fan C.E.T.
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Jul 24, 2009
I want to make an animation (preferably 2d)
I just want to do it for fun. The only thing is I want to be able to it quickly (if possible).
I have done animation using paint, inkscape and gimp to frame by frame make an animation ,but that takes ages.
I'm sure there must be a program to make an animation Quickly.
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Feb 26, 2009
1) Vista is the slowest most crappy os, how can I make it faster?
2) You could throw it out the window so it will fall and it would go faster
1) if I tied a rock it it before I throw it will it go faster?
2) idiot! the acceleration g is constant!!! no matter if its a feather or a canon ball! What differs is the distance it will travel as its accelerating, and its aerodynamics.
1) so if I put it in an aerodynamic enclosure it will go faster?
2) yes but thats not all you can do!
1) Ahh I see what you mean.. can I put it in a canon and shoot it?
2) canons are so 16th century! Now that the US economy is falling apart they are selling the shuttle rocket solid fuel boosters that you can tie on to vista and shoot into space!
1) But what if we steer it towards a planet? Wont the gravitational pull
make it faster?
2) That would do some good but if you really want to make if faster you
can steer it towards a star
1) A star is good.. but I would like to make it go faster.. vista is so
lame its still slow
2) then steer it towards a black hole its intense gravitational pull will accelerate it to close to the speed of light
1) But what will happen when it enters the black hole?
2) It will enter a parallel alternate universe where vista works well,doesnt have bugs, and free and works fast.
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Mar 23, 2008
before this i try to install vista on my machine. and for sure in that time we need to create user (adminstrator) before we start using the vista. after that, i try to keep an image for my vista because if anything happen, it will be more easier to me. then, i try to image on my machine again. but, there already have i user which mean the administrator that i create during the 1st installation. so, when i do the image, i need to put the different user name because the user name that i try to create already exist. so that will create 2 different user when imaging is done. is there any way how to delete the 1st user? so when imaging is done, it will only 1 user (new user) and the windows will be automatically show the desktop. (i know how to delete from control panel>user account). actually this is for my client.
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