Can I repair 5384.4..?

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Frank

Ok, here's the question. I am triple (3) booting one computer that has
Media Center 2005, Vista 5384.4 B2, and XP Pro. My MCE need to have
repair run on it. If I do so the Vista boot mgr gets replace with the
old boot.ini and I can no longer boot into Vista. I'll only be able to
boot into MCE & XP.
Whats the easiest way around this problem. In other words how do I
repair the Vista boot mgr, that bcedit thingie?
And you know this is probably going to happen quite a number of times
over the next couple of years with dual/multiple booters.
THX
Frank
 
Use a third party boot manager. Install each operating system on a "primary"
DOS partition. Hide the non-used operating systems from the system you are
currently installing. Then hide the non-used operating systems from the one
you are currently using.

I have used System Commander successfully for over 13 years now, with every
operating system imaginable. I have never had conflicts. Because the
operating system being installed thinks it is the "only" one on the system,
it never load it dual boot service. This is handled by the 3rd party boot
manager.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Richard said:
Use a third party boot manager. Install each operating system on a "primary"
DOS partition. Hide the non-used operating systems from the system you are
currently installing. Then hide the non-used operating systems from the one
you are currently using.

I have used System Commander successfully for over 13 years now, with every
operating system imaginable. I have never had conflicts. Because the
operating system being installed thinks it is the "only" one on the system,
it never load it dual boot service. This is handled by the 3rd party boot
manager.
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Thanks, but is there a way to repair Vista's boot manager? Like in XP we
can use the repair console and do fixmbr & fixboot?
THX
Frank
 
Andre said:
Vista for me right now won't boot, I installed from an ISO, so I can't tell,
but the error message displayed is winload.exe failed to load. It suggested
booting from the Vista DVD I suspect it has new capabilities for detecting
existing installs of Windows Vista and repair. Its worth a try.
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So Andre, you're going to do, or try to do a repair process on Vista
5384.4?
Is that correct?
If so, please post the details for all to see.
Thanks
Frank
 
Andre said:
You are gonna have to wait until Monday, I am not going into town to buy DVD
blanks until then.
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hehehe...I put all of my Vista iso's on dvd+rw's. :-)
Frank
 
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