Startup problem in vista- missing boot manager

[Guest]

Hello friends
i had windows xp in drive c:\ and i install vista in drive d:\
my active partition in c:\
i also have a image of xp (i create it with Norton Ghost)
i replace my windows xp with this image
after that i could not start vista (i know that my c partition should have a
folder name BOOT and it relates vista startup) i copy a folder from d:\ to
c:\ but i can not see vista startup dialogs. i also use vista startup
recovery from it's DVD but it didn't solve problem.
now i want to build a new boot manager for vista.
what should i do?

 

[John Braham]

Hello friends
i had windows xp in drive c:\ and i install vista in drive d:\
my active partition in c:\
i also have a image of xp (i create it with Norton Ghost)
i replace my windows xp with this image
after that i could not start vista (i know that my c partition should have a
folder name BOOT and it relates vista startup) i copy a folder from d:\ to
c:\ but i can not see vista startup dialogs. i also use vista startup
recovery from it's DVD but it didn't solve problem.
now i want to build a new boot manager for vista.
what should i do?

I had the same problem, although if i booted the machine with the dvd
in the drive, but didn't select 'boot from disc' it boots fine, are
you getting a missing bootmgr message?

If you can get it to boot, I would pass on the suggestion which was
given to me, which was to download VistaBootPro (google it) which
apparently will take over the boot process.

John

 

[Jon]

Hello friends
i had windows xp in drive c:\ and i install vista in drive d:\
my active partition in c:\
i also have a image of xp (i create it with Norton Ghost)
i replace my windows xp with this image
after that i could not start vista (i know that my c partition should have
a
folder name BOOT and it relates vista startup) i copy a folder from d:\ to
c:\ but i can not see vista startup dialogs. i also use vista startup
recovery from it's DVD but it didn't solve problem.
now i want to build a new boot manager for vista.
what should i do?

Check out the 'bootrec.exe' command via your Vista DVD.
Boot from your DVD and choose the 'Command Prompt' option, after entering
System Recovery.

bootrec /?

eg

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd

 

[mikeyhsd]

download and install VistaBootPro.
it runs on xp and vista.
it has options to recreate multi boot menu.

when you restored xp you wiped out the boot menu.



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Hello friends
i had windows xp in drive c:\ and i install vista in drive d:\
my active partition in c:\
i also have a image of xp (i create it with Norton Ghost)
i replace my windows xp with this image
after that i could not start vista (i know that my c partition should have a
folder name BOOT and it relates vista startup) i copy a folder from d:\ to
c:\ but i can not see vista startup dialogs. i also use vista startup
recovery from it's DVD but it didn't solve problem.
now i want to build a new boot manager for vista.
what should i do?

 

[John Braham]

Check out the 'bootrec.exe' command via your Vista DVD.
Boot from your DVD and choose the 'Command Prompt' option, after entering
System Recovery.

bootrec /?

eg

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd

Thanks, I tried VistaBootPro last night but it failed to fix my boot
issues, I'll give ytour suggestion a try, sounds promising