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So after having a stable and successful dual-boot with XP and Vista Ultimate
32Bit for a couple of months now, I got over-confident.
I had the bright wee hours of the morning idea that I could quickly increase
my Vista partition size as it was getting a little light (it shares an
internal HDD with another drive letter) and promptly stuffed my Vista boot.
Setup = C:\ XP Boot (original OPSYS). V:\ Vista Partition (shared on same
drive as D:\)
What I did...
* Booted into XP, loaded Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.
* Resized D:\ (shrunk by 25GB) and Resized v:\ (increased by 25GB).
* Applied actions.
* Had a PC lock-up in XP some time later during same session, reset PC.
* Boot error - no Windows Vista found (load original disc).
* Loaded Vista disc and used "r" option. Located vista partition, repaired.
* Vista Booted (had rundll.exe error or something similar) and died.
* Re-booted, hit F8 and selected "last known good config." Vista ran lengthy
disc check.
* Re-Booted- Vista loaded to login. Keyed normal user/password, and
"preparing desktop" appeared.
* My desktop and startup programs fail to boot and I get stuck in a plain
blue empty screen with cursor and CTR-ALT-DEL accessing Task Manager or
log-off / shutdown screen only.
I have re-checked the Vista Drive in XP and it is all there
(profile/data/opsys etc). However, when I boot back to command prompt in
Vista - V:\ has become H:\. No wonder my profile/desktop/start-up and Vista
doesn't kick-in properly!
I think the problem I have is that running the Vista Boot Disc with repair
option - bypasses the boot setup on my HDD. Therefore, Vista does not see my
XP install on my C:\. Also, I cannot access the repair option from the Vista
Disc within my XP boot - as opposed to the "install" options which I
originally did to install Vista dual-boot.
This means that my V:\ (visible in my XP boot as V:\) is reassigned when I
select Vista in my start-up boot options. It then becomes H:\. This stops all
my apps, profile and Vista botting properly - hence the plain blue vista
screen after "preparing desktop".
When I boot to XP, and load Acronis or Disk Management in XP, C:\ is an
"active" partition with my XP Boot & System files.
However, V:\ (a primary partition shared with D:\ on a 320GB HDD) is not an
"active" partition.
If I make v:\ active in XP, will this help when I try and reboot and select
my Vista boot ?
If not, how can I (from within XP) lock Vista to recognise the system drive
as V:\ and not assign it's own letter ?
Thanks,
Striderlps.
32Bit for a couple of months now, I got over-confident.
I had the bright wee hours of the morning idea that I could quickly increase
my Vista partition size as it was getting a little light (it shares an
internal HDD with another drive letter) and promptly stuffed my Vista boot.
Setup = C:\ XP Boot (original OPSYS). V:\ Vista Partition (shared on same
drive as D:\)
What I did...
* Booted into XP, loaded Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.
* Resized D:\ (shrunk by 25GB) and Resized v:\ (increased by 25GB).
* Applied actions.
* Had a PC lock-up in XP some time later during same session, reset PC.
* Boot error - no Windows Vista found (load original disc).
* Loaded Vista disc and used "r" option. Located vista partition, repaired.
* Vista Booted (had rundll.exe error or something similar) and died.
* Re-booted, hit F8 and selected "last known good config." Vista ran lengthy
disc check.
* Re-Booted- Vista loaded to login. Keyed normal user/password, and
"preparing desktop" appeared.
* My desktop and startup programs fail to boot and I get stuck in a plain
blue empty screen with cursor and CTR-ALT-DEL accessing Task Manager or
log-off / shutdown screen only.
I have re-checked the Vista Drive in XP and it is all there
(profile/data/opsys etc). However, when I boot back to command prompt in
Vista - V:\ has become H:\. No wonder my profile/desktop/start-up and Vista
doesn't kick-in properly!
I think the problem I have is that running the Vista Boot Disc with repair
option - bypasses the boot setup on my HDD. Therefore, Vista does not see my
XP install on my C:\. Also, I cannot access the repair option from the Vista
Disc within my XP boot - as opposed to the "install" options which I
originally did to install Vista dual-boot.
This means that my V:\ (visible in my XP boot as V:\) is reassigned when I
select Vista in my start-up boot options. It then becomes H:\. This stops all
my apps, profile and Vista botting properly - hence the plain blue vista
screen after "preparing desktop".
When I boot to XP, and load Acronis or Disk Management in XP, C:\ is an
"active" partition with my XP Boot & System files.
However, V:\ (a primary partition shared with D:\ on a 320GB HDD) is not an
"active" partition.
If I make v:\ active in XP, will this help when I try and reboot and select
my Vista boot ?
If not, how can I (from within XP) lock Vista to recognise the system drive
as V:\ and not assign it's own letter ?
Thanks,
Striderlps.