OK - I took a deep breathe and tried brute force Killbox to delete bootmgr from C:, but it failed to delete on reboot. Anything stronger that you can suggest? Run the program and place the drive with the Vista bootloader problem in both the Source and the Target selection window.
Then click the "Cool Tools" tab and then click the "Make bootable" button. Tag all three of those boxes and click the Start button. It's anti-climactic and you won't know if it worked until you check by using your previous criteria. I think this will be a safe procedure so long as you make certain you have the right drive selected in the two fields. If it hoses the drive, I know you have adequate images for deployment and restoration so I'm not all that concerned about igniting any international conflict.
As an alternative to sd2's suggestion, and another suggestion for removing the bootmgr And I would take the safe route of creating a new folder, then moving those files rather than deleting. Nothing's simple with these one-eyed monsters. Was somewhat surprised that I was able to do so. Install CD still did not recognise a Windows installation.
Interesting side effect though would not have been interesting without backup - the IDE drive was completely empty - all partitions and data - gone.
Problem with the partition table I guess though I made no changes to that drive in mbrworks - that I know of. Final thought - fixboot. Booted to Recovery Console which sees the Windows installation on D: drive That might explain why the install CD fails to see an installation as no doubt it looks only for an installation on C:, but WE, Disk Management and PM all see Windows on C: So I'm fresh out of ideas and heading for a format and clean install next week Using my system as an example, I have harddisk 1 seen as harddisk 0 in the BIOS, and set as second boot with 98 which is gone now on partition 1, XP Pro on partition 2, Vista also gone now on partition 3, and 5 more partitions for storage.
If I boot directly to the harddisk 2 install, it is seen as drive letter C: in WE. I will try unhooking the other drives and running setup again, but neither of the other two drives have had an OS installed on them.
The other interesting point, if I read the mbrwork partition table correctly, is that there is no partition data shown for anything other than the first partition. May be because that is the only active partition and that is all mbrworks sees.
Anyway thanks again for your thoughts on this - I think it is a mystery too far and Vista has a lot to answer for. The warning you saw somewhere was probably just that an XP repair install would remove the Vista bootloader and so the dual boot option. Your problem it almost certainly hard drive configuration and the XP CD being unable to find the correct drive to work on. Just for information, VistaBootPro is not a bootmanager or bootloader or anything like that.
It is merely a GUI for bcdedit. McTavish ,. Here's the part that still has me baffled. When you ram mbrwork you reported the following:. The final chapter on this Ran a fixboot and fixmbr for good luck and booted again from the install CD and for the first time it saw the Windows installation and offered the repair option. Great, I thought, been trying to get there for months The repair went totally pear shaped - kept on asking for files on CD's I do not possess and if I had the files they were on a drive which was not connected.
All in One — System Rescue Toolkit is designed to quickly and efficiently aid a technician with troubleshooting and repairing Windows-based PCs. Repair Windows includes:.
A completely free bootable CD that contains a load of useful tools you can make use of in a variety of situations like analyzing, recovering and fixing your computer even if the primary operating system can not be booted. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of linux software such as system tools parted, partimage, fstools, … and basic tools editors, midnight commander, network tools.
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The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory. Dual boot software visual BCD editor is for a person who wants to install two or more operating system on a single computer. Most of the time when people thinking for such a dual-setup OS environment; they start searching online for the solution and if they are not familiar with how these OSs are working they end up with a mess. Especially in the case of Linux and Windows dual booting.
Since the working of both the OS is absolutely different; thus, the setting up of filesystem and booting needs a little help. Although in above heading we mentioned Windows 10 and Linux because of there popularity, it supports macOS boot entry too. Here, the EasyBCD a Windows 10 metro bootloader makes it possible to create various bootloader settings via a clear program interface with little knowledge of it. It is a freemium program and available as EasyBCD Community Edition to use free of cost for personal purpose but for commercial or developing, one has to pay for its license fee.
Select your second partition or second hard drive. Once the select a partition or disk and click Next, the rest of the installation will continue as it normally would. Select Microsoft Windows Vista. You can change the boot manager settings if you would like, if not then you can stop reading.
Johnathan Ward is an experienced developer and consultant that writes tutorials to help other developers. Select Microsoft Windows Vista You can change the boot manager settings if you would like, if not then you can stop reading.
In the System Startup pane, you can change the settings. Johnathan Ward.
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