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Boot record got the boot; missing NTLDR;x64
Link is <http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64/archive/2006/09/28/Fixing-Dual-Boot- Problems-with-XP-x64-and-Vista-x64.aspx> There is only one drive, basically the raid 10 email.net> wrote: You are a lost soul. EasyBCD has to be installed on Vista or XP. You haven't provided useful information to solve your problem,

Vista / FreeBSD dual boot
The term is dual boot. And you require programs named dual loader or boot manager Separate hard drives is the correct way rather than partitions. You also have to make changes in BIOS. There are known problems with Vista in that in dual boot the system restore points can be lost. (there is probably a reason but I

The nitty gritty of XP boot loaders (VERY LONG!)
Windows dual booting older version of windows (XP) or Vista. If you do standard pre-load then: Transfer any data from D: to C: Delete or shrink D: (With Vista Disk Management) and create a new empty partition for FreeBSD FreeBSD Boot loader, Grub, Lilo or Gag diskette will allow booting Vista.

Dual boot - remove one OS.
The more I fool with Vista the more I like it. Just discovered flip3D. -- dave Well I tried and tried an tried getting it to dual boot with no luck. Followed instructions I downloaded but dont know if the problem relates to Vista being OEM or the fact that the System drive is actually 2 drives in RAID0.

Install Windows XP after Vista
How do you dual boot XP and Vista. I purchased Vista Ultimate OEM a few months ago as part of my pc rebuild but due to some teething problems I and booted it up to the initial installation location choices even not continuing the whole installation was messed up as if the bootloader got erased which worries me.

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 200, Issue 76
I keep hearing about "use the boot loader that comes with Vista " is it really that simple... I don't want to give up my XP, yet I want the power of Vista and DX10! Feel free to point me in the way of a tutorial, if no one feels like explaining this for the umpteenth time :) But I do appreciate the time and effort

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 176, Issue 16
Typically in a case like yours the rdisk value will point to a disk other than 0, it should be something like like this: [boot loader] timeout=15 My vista dual-boot login asks me which operating system to start with, but when I choose XP on D: tell me that {ntldr} is missing and cannot continue.

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 200, Issue 72
GNW G...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general After much searching for ways to dual boot xp and Vista with Vista installed first used to try and reclaim the lost/unallocated partition show the OS partition as 233 GB, which is what it should be, but VISTA shows the partition as 124 GB?

Vista 'Feature' Makes Dual-Boot Much Harder
I partitioned his hard drive, installed XP on the 2nd partition and installed Vistaboot pro because I had lost the ability to boot into Vista after installing XP. After restoring Vista's bootloader with Vistaboot pro, I could boot into Vista, but not XP. I would get an error about not being able to locate the ntldr

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 198, Issue 5
I tried installing Windows Vista Business on the first one to use in a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP which was on the second hard drive. Well, the Vista installation worked fine, but when I went to boot into XP, I found Vista's boot loader hadn't recognized Windows XP. Clearly frustrated, I tried several

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 171, Issue 16
More reasons for dual-boot: Data migration from one partition to another; ability to practice the new applications one 'lump' at a time; depends to some extent how one defines "superior", though it's clear Windows is decidedly *inferior*, in its present incarnation (but Don't Worry, Vista Will Fix Everything!

Dual boot: FBSD-Vista & FDISK problem
At first, when I tried to boot the installation CD, the loader hung very early in the process with the message "BTX halted". But when I went to the BIOS Now I'm lost again. Mind you, I'm sure it said HPIJS was the best driver to choose, but it comes up with error messages in the print queue on the Vista box.

kubuntu 7.10 is really suks to install ! (al)
If a user wises to re size the Vista partition then dual boot the user maybe surprised to find Vista will fail to boot from the BSD boot loader with the .... died about 3 months later, and I lost almost 300GB of data, and of that about ~100GB was irreplaceable. It's my own fault for not doing backups [see below].

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 165, Issue 11
FreeBSD Boot loader, Grub, Lilo or Gag diskette will allow booting Vista. Otherwise a Linux and or FreeBSD are a lot more efficient tan Vista... Ok, but this FreeBSD The MBR seems lost... the slice 1 and 3 should not be there... and hiting F2 (C:\ slice I guess) doesn't work... impossible to boot in windows!

problem with dual boot
Is possible install Windows XP after Windows Vista, in a new partition? or it is necessary format the disk, lost Windows Vista and install Windows XP? It will overwrite the Vista boot loader files and those will have to be restored to get a dual boot. I have included a link on how to do this.

Ok, another (annoying?) question . . .
When it completes, your Win2000 system will boot, but you will have lost access to the Vista installation. You can either do a startup repair by booting the Well, he wouldn't be installing Vista, he would be repairing the bootloader. VistaBootPro is the choice of most, though I prefer just using bcdedit from

dual boot xp and vista...with vista recovery dvd
My troubles began when I attempted to dual-boot Vista. Vista loaded fine, but I lost access to my XP installation. The menu item for XP created by Vista in Vista's new bootloader couldn't find ntldr or hal.dll, I forget which one exactly. I messed with various configurations in easyBCD for a while with no luck,

Sata troubles xp and vista
Re: Dual boot problems (Jerry McAllister) 24. Fwd: Poll: What's the best audio player (Jeff Rollin) 25. Re: How can I manually turn off the HDD? ...... I've already thought about using the windows bootloader, but Vista has > done away with NTLDR/boot.ini in favor of "BCD". editing BCD seems > non-trivial at best,

How to disable system restore on USB and 1394 hard drives?
Without this, safe interaction between strangers becomes impossible, which means that much of the Internet's value is lost. .... Then again, the same could be said for windows too..last I checked it's default multi-boot compatibility is "Wipe out the dual boot and install itself only" IIRC. =) I haven't seen that,

solaris 10 and windows x64 dual boot redux
Incidentally, the boot.ini found by Partition Commander is on the C drive, and it reads [boot loader] timeout=20 Link is <http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64/archive/2006/09/28/Fixing-Dual-Boot- Problems-with-XP-x64-and-Vista-x64.aspx> There is only one drive, basically the raid 10 matrix.