No BOOT.INI in Vista? How do I add a third partition?

N

Noozer

What is this BCDEDIT program and why can I not use it? I'm an Administrator,
and the only user on the system, yet I see the following:

C:\Users\Steve>bcdedit
The boot configuration data store could not be opened.
Access is denied.

Microsoft, you've gone through all this trouble to get the world you use
your desktop, then start throwing out DOS (command line) applications. If I
wanted this I'd already be running Linux.

HOW can I add my third partition to the Vista boot menu?
 
P

Pierre Szwarc

You need to run your command prompt as administrator. Then the "bcdedit"
command will work (BTW, I really wish someone would slap an UI over that one
<g>)
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"Noozer" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de %[email protected]...
| What is this BCDEDIT program and why can I not use it? I'm an
Administrator,
| and the only user on the system, yet I see the following:
|
| C:\Users\Steve>bcdedit
| The boot configuration data store could not be opened.
| Access is denied.
|
| Microsoft, you've gone through all this trouble to get the world you use
| your desktop, then start throwing out DOS (command line) applications. If
I
| wanted this I'd already be running Linux.
|
| HOW can I add my third partition to the Vista boot menu?
|
 
Z

Zack Whittaker

They will :blush:)

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of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

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N

Noozer

Hrm... My user IS ad Administrator, but I'll give it a try.

Reading through Microsofts website about BCDEdit, I still don't see how to
add another partition to the menu.
 
J

Jason

I usually do it via the installation on a freshly formated computer by
deleting all partitions and creating the partitions manually or using 3rd
party programs to create or resize partitions. Such as partition magic.

As far as your user, maybe you have to log in as the accual Administrator
Account and not just an account with Administator rights but I could be
wrong.

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Jason

Applied but still waiting to be accepted for the Vista Beta Testing group.
Can't wait to be able to play and help make it even better.

http://www.orderpcs4free.com/?r=878
 
N

Noozer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: No BOOT.INI in Vista? How do I add a third partition?

I usually do it via the installation on a freshly formated computer by
deleting all partitions and creating the partitions manually or using 3rd
party programs to create or resize partitions. Such as partition magic.

As far as your user, maybe you have to log in as the accual Administrator
Account and not just an account with Administator rights but I could be
wrong.
Click to expand...

I'm able to use BCDEdit if I run my command prompt as Administrator.

My problem is that I see no way to add another partition to the Vista boot
menu.

I have one hard drive with three primary partitions. #1 is Windows XP, #2 is
Vista and #3 is Mac OS X.

The Vista boot menu shows #1 and #2, but I see no way to add #3.
 
P

Pierre Szwarc

I'm not sure the Vista boot manager can handle non-MS OSes. But if you run
"bcdedit /?", you'll get a full synopsis of its capabilities. I've used it
to remove an obsolete entry and rename another, but I haven't needed to add
an extra OS yet.
--
Pierre Szwarc
Paris, France
PGP key ID 0x75B5779B
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Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom !
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"Noozer" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de %[email protected]...
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Jason" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
| Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 12:37 PM
| Subject: Re: No BOOT.INI in Vista? How do I add a third partition?
|
|
| >I usually do it via the installation on a freshly formated computer by
| >deleting all partitions and creating the partitions manually or using 3rd
| >party programs to create or resize partitions. Such as partition magic.
| >
| > As far as your user, maybe you have to log in as the accual
Administrator
| > Account and not just an account with Administator rights but I could be
| > wrong.
|
| I'm able to use BCDEdit if I run my command prompt as Administrator.
|
| My problem is that I see no way to add another partition to the Vista boot
| menu.
|
| I have one hard drive with three primary partitions. #1 is Windows XP, #2
is
| Vista and #3 is Mac OS X.
|
| The Vista boot menu shows #1 and #2, but I see no way to add #3.
|
 
N

Noozer

Really?

It didn't do this for me here...

Is there a way to create the entry after installation?

Thanks!
 

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