VistaBootPRO says Vista has not been installed when first loaded but then works fine. Is this because I have dual boot (Vista Bootloader) with Winxpx64 on first partition? Since I use BootITNG (great program) I installed Vista on second partition but it THINKS it is C:. Anyway what's with the load message?

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martyfelker wrote:

VistaBootPRO says Vista has not been installed when first loaded but then works fine. Is this because I have dual boot (Vista Bootloader) with Winxpx64 on first partition? Since I use BootITNG (great program) I installed Vista on second partition but it THINKS it is C:. Anyway what's with the load message?

Actually, I believe the message you are getting says "VistaBootPRO has detected that either Microsoft Windows Vista is not currently installed, or you may have an irregular drive configuration"

In your case it sees an irregular drive configuration so there should be no problems running the program.

jrfree1 wrote:

martyfelker wrote: VistaBootPRO says Vista has not been installed when first loaded but then works fine. Is this because I have dual boot (Vista Bootloader) with Winxpx64 on first partition? Since I use BootITNG (great program) I installed Vista on second partition but it THINKS it is C:. Anyway what's with the load message? Actually, I believe the message you are getting says "VistaBootPRO has detected that either Microsoft Windows Vista is not currently installed, or you may have an irregular drive configuration" In your case it sees an irregular drive configuration so there should be no problems running the program.

This is quite true - I do have an irregular drive configuration. However after I changaed the Bootloader entry names to Windows XP x64 and Windows Vista RC1 the bootloader blue screen (well actually black screen!).
Fixed easily with RC1 rescue option but what happened? Anyway great and super quick response - very good program

I get this error and I don't consider my "setup" odd as far as hard drives go. I have a 160GB IDE with 3 partitions, Vista is installed on the first one, other two are hidden backup partitions. Then I have 3 SATA drives that are storage only.