Problem with Vista and Multi Boot (Resolved)

by **stepon** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:10 pm

I know you hear this alot, but I am a newbie to this GREAT program. I have been reading up on all the forum, and the support team you have is FANTASTIC. I have read through thoroughly, and I hope this is not a repeat problem. I have used partition commander and have partitioned a 300 GB hard drive into three partitions:
1: Windows x64
2: Windows MCE
3: Windows Vista Ultimate

I have installed VBP and set everything as instructed. When I boot, the boot option screen comes up and asks for which OS. When I choose Vista, all is well, but when I choose x64 or MCE I get the ntldr find corrupted or missing. I know format all and starting over is an option, but would like to avoid that at all cost since I have already done that three times. Here are the screen shots for disk manager and VBP. Please help, I have no doubts that you can. javascript:emoticon(':notworthy')
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Edit: NT50 Changed subject line to Resolved

by **NT50** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:32 pm

Moved here from original by me.

As for the screen shot of your disk manager
In Vista, it has a nice screen shot program built in. Use it to take a screen shot of you drives/partitions
Create you and account at imageshack or similar and upload.
Image shack will give you the proper coding/link for a thumbnail image. Just copy and past the link for thumbnail/forum and past it in a new post.

by **stepon** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:54 pm

Let try that again, but the right way

by **NT50** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:27 pm

Disk D (Videos) is your system drive/disk

That is the drive that the boot files for Windows and the boot files for Vista must reside on....

So you need to find the

boot.ini (for you multiboot of Windows XP/MCE
ntldr
ntdetect

And copy them to the root directory of drive D:

Then you can take VBP (VistaBootPro) delete the entries for Windows XP and MCd and start new entries.

Point Windows x64 to drive E
Point Windows XP MCE to drive H

On another note here********************

How did you get your drive D:/Disk 2 to be the system drive. Did you install Vista on it at one point?

by **stepon** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:13 pm

Sorry to take so long to respond.
I am having troubles finding ntldr, ntdetect, and the boot.ini files on both os

On you other question, I did install a beta of vista on drive d: a while back, I am willing to get rid of it if I need to.

A little more info to help out:
When I try to fixboot for windows, the drive line up like this
f:\windows vista
l:\windows x64
m:\windows mce
n:\windows vista beta

Hope that helps anymore

by **NT50** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:53 pm

Under the folder options you have to show the hidden and system files.................

by **stepon** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:06 am

I GOT IT, thank you very much for the GREAT help. This is has been a two week problem, thank you very much... The welcome chime to windows MCE never sounded so beautiful... :-)

by **NT50** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:24 am

You are welcome, I'm changing the subject to Resolved. Glad you got it going.

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