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VistaBootPro trouble
I used VistaBootPro to setup 2 Vista partitions and 2 XP partitions on 2 hard drives, 1 Vista and 1 XP on each drive. That worked fine. HOWEVER I've had to use 1 of the drives on another computer. That too is fine - I reloaded XP without trouble.
The difficulty arises with the orginal Vista/XP drive. I can boot to either OK but - thinking to tidy up the boot system I started VistaBootPro. I get this message "Index and count must refer to a location within the string. Parameter name: count"
How do I sort this out? I really must because I will almost certainly be making more hard drive changes soon.
Colin
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Hello Spirefm and welcome to PROnetworks!! Please stop by our Introduction Area so we can give you a proper welcome.
As to your issue - please be patient as our members stop in and check out your specific issue. In the meantime, could you post the output of bcdedit.exe with both physical HDD's installed/connected? Also are your HDD's IDE or SATA?
Welcome to PROnetworks and wehn you get a chance head over to our <a href="http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=32">Introduction Area</a> and tell us a little about yourself.
In order to fix the "Index count" error that you are receiving you will need to follow the instructions outlined <a href="http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=82556">here</a>.
Some history on your problem. When changing/removing HDD's like that, the actual OS entries are still contained in the BCD Store. Therefore, when you load VBP it is looking for an OS that is not there anymore. Once you get this sorted out, your best method to follow when removing/replacing HDD's is to remove the OS before using VBP. Then you should remove the actual drive.
HTH,
Jason
In order to fix the "Index count" error that you are receiving you will need to follow the instructions outlined <a href="http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=82556">here</a>.
Some history on your problem. When changing/removing HDD's like that, the actual OS entries are still contained in the BCD Store. Therefore, when you load VBP it is looking for an OS that is not there anymore. Once you get this sorted out, your best method to follow when removing/replacing HDD's is to remove the OS before using VBP. Then you should remove the actual drive.
HTH,
Jason
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VistaBootPro trouble (of my own making!)
Both drives are SATA. Both operating systems are on 1 drive, the other is only data. Here's a screenshot of BDCEDIT The second boot loader is surplus now I've removed the other drive. Vista is on C: and XP on F:
This is very abbreviated of course
Boot Manager
Partition F:
Boot Ldr
Partition C:
Vista RC1 Colin
Boot Ldr
Unknown
Vista RC1 Edwin (this was on the drive that was removed)
Legacy
Partition F:
XP English/Spanish
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This is very abbreviated of course
Boot Manager
Partition F:
Boot Ldr
Partition C:
Vista RC1 Colin
Boot Ldr
Unknown
Vista RC1 Edwin (this was on the drive that was removed)
Legacy
Partition F:
XP English/Spanish
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VistaBootPro trouble - sorted
I noticed here that msconfig can delete entries so I deleted the redundant entry and all is well. 1 second after I took the drive out I realsied I should have dealt with the boot file first. Anyway, nice to meet you all. I'll be back again I feel sure
Colin
Colin
VistBoot Pro trouble
Having used MSConfig to delete the redundant Boat Loader entry I now discover that this puts MSConfig in a non-default state, in other words if I set MSCONFIG to standard , the redundant entry reappears and VistaBootPro cannot correct it.
Unless I'm wrong (impossible! Oh yea?) it looks like I must learn how to use bcdedit. Ugh! Colin
Unless I'm wrong (impossible! Oh yea?) it looks like I must learn how to use bcdedit. Ugh! Colin
If you haven't seen our BCDEDIT how to, it's here.
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