Window Vista Dvd Would Not Boot
Jun 1, 2009
This is for sure that its an old issue and has been quite used and abused on this and different forums. I tried to boot my laptop from the Windows Vista DVD but it just wouldn't boot. Its booting all fine from my desktop but not from my laptop. All i am getting is the bootmgr error. Its not even letting me into the BIOS. When I try to press any function keys, i get error beeps. For the hell of it, I tried to boot from the Windows XP bootable as well and even from Linux Fedora bootable...Did anyone get anything like this. If yeah and you were able to solve the whole thing out, please be kind enough to share the solution.
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Aug 1, 2009
I had (and still do have) Vista Home Premium 32bit on my brand new PC, I dual booted this with Ubuntu (which I couldn't care less about right now), I then went to multi-boot it all with XP. And XP has taken over. So basically this is my situation, when I boot I now only get the choice of Windows XP Professional.I know that Vista uses BCD for it's booting and XP uses boot.ini. I can see that in my C drive (the one that holds Vista) there is now a boot.ini file.I have tried (in XP, since it's the only thing I can get into) going into cmd and typing "cd C:UsersXXX" to get into Vista and then typing "bcdedit", to which it tells me it can't find any such command.
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I am trying to use a system restore disk for my friend's computer that I downloaded. The computer have Vista, now I have a 32 bit and 64 bit disc. How can I find out which version of Vista I have? I cannot boot into window or safe mode ( I could figure it out from there). I also tried to check the Bios and saw nothing. The laptop only has 2 gigs of RAM I think, so I would assume 32 Bit, but I want to be sure. Also, if I used the wrong one, would it mess up the computer? or could I just redo it with the other CD?
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Mar 23, 2008
I have windows xp installed right now and I dual booted with vista by re-partitioning my hard drive. After encountering problems with vista I delted the vista partition and resized the xp partition back to it's original size. I am now stuck with the windows vista boot loader which persistantly telling me that the windows vista files are not present etc. etc. Is there any way that I can delted the vista bootloader and go back to using the xp bootloader?
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Mar 23, 2008
I have installed Vista on my C: disk. After that I installed XP on D: disk. Now I can't boot Vista anymore.
I tried with boot.ini. I've read that there's a program called bcdedit.exe. I tried to make that one work on XP, but I failed. I don't have Vista's DVD, and I'm trying to avoid installing XP again. If there's any way around...I would be gratefull! (Is there any way I can edit bcdedit.exe in XP?)
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Mar 26, 2008
I searched all over the internet for this simple (I think) problem, but I couldn't find any solutions. I have installed Vista on my C: disk. After that I installed XP on D: disk. Now I can't boot Vista anymore. I tried with boot.ini. I've read that there's a program called bcdedit.exe. I tried to make that one work on XP, but I failed.
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Oct 5, 2008
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Oct 11, 2009
Over the last few days, immediately after boot up, a small window pops up on my desktop. It's title is "Preparing to Move". It APPEARS to do precisely nothing and disappears, not to be seen again until I next boot up!
Anybody got an idea what this is all about? Only seems to have been appearing over, say, the last week. OS is Vista Home Premium-64 bit. Look forward with interest to any comments,
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There are many articles on how to dual boot Vista and XP, but I want to dual boot Vista and Vista, with an existing installation, on 2 Hard Drives. Currently I switch these in the BIOS, but I'd much rather chose at a later stage, can this be done? Why? Because I keep one of the drives for random software that I rarely use.
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Mar 15, 2008
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Mar 26, 2008
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Mar 26, 2008
I had an Vista 32 bit version installed and which was used fine.
3 days before I had upgrade my PC's memory to 4G, then I find Vista 32 Bit version can not recognize all the memory.So I try to install an Vista 64 Bit version for the test to check if the 64 bit system is ok for me.
The problem is, Vista 32 was installed on to the 3rd partition of the harddisk,usually the drive letter will be E in Windows XP and previous version windows, although it in Vista it display as C drive. I tried to install the 64 Bit Vista in to the 4th partiton. After all the drivers and applications install completed,that seems so far so good. Then I find my previous F drive now names C. The Drive C in Vista 32 Bit names E now. When
I try to boot into Vista 32, the error message : winload.exe could not find.
I used bcdedit try to redirect the device and osdevice to E drive, Vista 32 still could not start normally, the system will hang up in the blue desktop background,seems can not load user profile or sth like that.
I have check the E drive, all the files of Vista 32 are still there.Anyone have any good idea about fix the Vista 32 bit boot and keep the Vista 64 bit also?
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Jan 19, 2010
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Dec 25, 2008
Right now I have a single 640 gig HDD that everything's on. I've got a laptop too that I'm gonna be taking out on rotations eventually. I wanted to get a new smaller (250GB) HDD and put my Vista on that, so my 640 will be data only (then I could take it with me in an external enclosure and leave the desktop for my mom to use til I come back and collect it). I was gonna DBAN the 640, but I wanted to get the data off of it first- about 170 GB of stuff that I'd rather not lose.
My question is-
Can I install Vista on the smaller drive, boot with that, and access files on the other drive? Would it work if there's another Vista running on the other drive? (both SATA).
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Dec 8, 2009
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Apr 22, 2009
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Jan 31, 2009
I have two OS's Vista and also XP and its XP that is the problem in so much as I cannot get it to boot, I get the error ntldr is missing, and no matter if I put the disk in and try to boot from the disk, the system still won't play ball, it just tells me to ctrl-alt-del to reboot, this is despite me pressing any key to boot from the disk.
I really do not know what else to do, getting XP to work is not a major issue for me, but it would be nice to see what I have on that drive. As a point of note, I have both my operating systems in caddies, so I can remove Vista and slide XP in whenever I want to, incase some of you have not heard of caddies.
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Sep 1, 2008
I'm attempting to install Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit. The Pioneer DVD drives come with a cd with drivers on them This is a brand new build everything brand new, and my first install for the Operating System Attempting to set up RAID so heres the problem, I try to boot off of the Vista CD. For some reason before it can install, it stops and says that I need to select a driver for the CD Roms, but nothing is there to select. It says that it can't find any, and that if needed, to put in a cd to install the drivers. I do so, it says it still can't find any. I can't move on, and I have tried EVERYTHING. I'm hoping that someone else has had this problem and has solved it. I've tried a different CD rom that does not require loadable drivers to work, and the same problem exists. Why does Windows Vista need drivers for the CD Rom if it is able to get that far without the 'needed' drivers?! I am so confused and I don't know where to turn.
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Jul 18, 2008
I currently have Vista x64 Ultimate installed, and I'm using this tutorial I found on the internet (link) to make a partition and dual boot XP with Vista. There's only one question that the tutorial could not answer for me, so I'm hoping you guys could . Is it alright if I have dual boot with Vista 64-bit and XP 32-bit? Will there be any conflicts between a 32-bit OS and a 64-bit OS?
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Apr 4, 2009
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Mar 23, 2008
I have a brand new Vista computer. I have an older XP computer. I plan on taking the hard drive from the old computer and put it into an external case and hook it up to the new computer using the USB port. I would like the new set up to be "dual boot" using the Vista as the first boot. First is this possible. I have never set up a dual boot before, is there specific instructions? Is it complicated?
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Oct 14, 2009
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May 13, 2010
In a fit of stupidity I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, and went with dual boot, but it just would not see my WiFi router regardless of what I tried, so got rid of it following some online advice, using the bootrec.exe/fixmbr command, which now allows me to boot straight into Vista. However, if you look at the pic attached you will see I have a huge lump of free space 41.64gb free space which I can't use for anything. Is there a way for me to re-combine the 41.64gb free space with the C: drive again, the options allowed are displayed in the pic, also there is another slice of the drive 5.37gb which I'd also like to be able to use.
I'm not sure I've made my self clear on what I'd like to acheive, which is to bring both of theses slices back in to the C: drive. On right clicking the 5.37gb drive the only option is Help, as neither of theses slices has a drive letter I don't see how I can do anything to them. The only options I have for the 41.64gb free space seems to be to make a simple volume (not sure what that actually means) or delete the partition. I'd like to get back to how it was before I installed Ubuntu, IE a C: & S: with no more partitions, preferably without having to re-install Vista. for clarity I've cut and pasted the options for each slice of the drive below the relevant slice
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May 8, 2009
when you dual boot with vista and xp you must run something to repair the MBR. What I need to know: I had already running Vista Ultimate x64. I have now installed onto its own partition my copy of Vista HM Premium x86. I have now updated the 32 bit install and just want to make sure, do i need to do anything lese before switching back to the 64 bit install? Also, how do I make it so that it lists Vista 32Bit and Vista 64 Bit in my boot options.instead of just Windows Vista twice?
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