BCD Registry is missing or corrupt
BCD Registry is missing or corrupt
I have Vista on one drive and XP on the other. Vista Boot installs fine on the Vista drive but when I try to install Vista Boot on the XP drive I get the following error message: "BCD registry is missing or corrupt. Please resolve this problem before proceeding".
How can I restore/install the BCD registry on my XP drive??
Really you shouldn't need to install VBP on both drives, installing it on Vista (assuming Vista can access the XP Drive) should work just fine
- Nativedude
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No, don't delete it. VistaBoot needs the .net Framework to operate.Sandpiper wrote:Yes, I have dotnet installer on the XP system. Should I delete it?
Sandpiper wrote:I also should point out that the Vista drive is a SATA drive and the XP drive is a IDE drive. Would that make a difference?
Have you intalled the drivers for the SATA controller in XP?
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Sandpiper,
Normally when there are weird drive configurations VBP can not find the winload.exe file which is what it looks for upon startup. Don't bother with this error as it is being removed and holds no bearing on anything that you do inside the application.
Normally when there are weird drive configurations VBP can not find the winload.exe file which is what it looks for upon startup. Don't bother with this error as it is being removed and holds no bearing on anything that you do inside the application.
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Oh yeah. Now that I looked at your problem again, you might have the Vista partition "Inactive" under the XP OS. You would need to launch Disk Manager to find out this information.
VistaBootPRO -> Tools -> Disk Manager
Right click on Partition and see if you have something like "Mark partition as active"
VistaBootPRO -> Tools -> Disk Manager
Right click on Partition and see if you have something like "Mark partition as active"
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Nope. Now we are getting somewhere. If you could please post the contents of
VistaBootPRO -> View Settings -> All
here that will give me a better starting point to correct this problem. It is just a matter of picking the correct drive for XP in VistaBootPRO. The reason you are getting this is because Vista has just "officially" taken control over booting. Marking the partition as active did that which is how it should be.
VistaBootPRO -> View Settings -> All
here that will give me a better starting point to correct this problem. It is just a matter of picking the correct drive for XP in VistaBootPRO. The reason you are getting this is because Vista has just "officially" taken control over booting. Marking the partition as active did that which is how it should be.
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