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As MCT, I often work in centers where the PCs have Wxp, W2k3k and even W2k
installed in different partitions. As the new courses begin, a partition must
be deleted and a new OS installed. To start practising I installed Vista in
my laptop together with XP and W2k3. Everything fine and enjoyed the new
experience. But I had to install a new image of W2k3 with Exchange in the
old W2k3 partition. The image worked fine but Vista disappeared from the boot
option. I can see it is still there but do not know how to get it back. When
this happened (Wxp and W2k3) this was solved by copying ntdetect, ntldr and
boot.in in C:. How can it be done with Vista?
I have been reading the discussions and VistaBootPro seems to be the
solution. Or starting the DVD again with the repair option. I will have a
look at it but, in the meanwhile, if anybody has done it already, could you
tell me the right way to do it?
It seems to me that this subject is not clear enough to most of us. I have
also downloaded the .pdf manual and expect to know it better
 
VistaBoot Pro is intuitive enough to just make it happen for you.

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If I were you, you have nothing to lose by trying to use Start Up Repair via
your DVD--absolutely no down side. Maybe this will do the job. I didn't
recommend trying the Advanced Options menu with F8, because of course you
don't see your Vista boot. I suppose you see your other boots there, so I'd
try to use Startup Repair with the DVD--you also have access to System
Restore there, and you could try that as well.

That takes very little time. If no joy with that, I'd definitely try either
Vista Boot Pro 2 or Neosmart's equivalent. There are tutorial instructions
on the sites.

Take a look at

Easy BCD
http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/185


and

Vista Boot Pro
http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/intro.php

For Startup Repair:

What to Do if Windows Vista Won't Start Correctly
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/f768809f-ed90-415f-a83f-89b42108b3551033.mspx

What It Can Do:

If you run Win RE's Startup Repair in Vista, it will try to check and repair
the following and we're taking about under three minutes usually when it
works which is often: (this is not a complete list but a list of major tasks
it can perform):

Registry Corruptions

Missing/corrupt driver files (you don't have to guess here--it looks at all
of them

Missing/corrupt system files (disabled in Beta 2 as is System File Checker
but present newer builds)

Incompatible Driver Installation

Incompatible OS update installations

Startup Repair may offer a dialogue box to use System restore.

How to Use Startup Repair:

Startup Repair: frequently asked questions
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx

***Accessing Windows RE (Repair Environment):***

1) Insert Media into PC (the DVD you burned)

2) ***You will see on the Vista logo setup screen after lang. options in the
lower left corner, a link called "System Recovery Options."***

Screenshot: System Recovery Options (Lower Left Link)
http://blogs.itecn.net/photos/liuhui/images/2014/500x375.aspx

Screenshot: (Click first option "Startup Repair"
http://www.leedesmond.com/images/img_vista02ctp-installSysRecOpt2.bmp

3) Select your OS for repair.

4) Its been my experience that you can see some causes of the crash from
theWin RE feature:

You'll have a choice there of using:

1) Startup Repair
2) System Restore
3) Complete PC Restore
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Good luck,

CH





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I have tried using Start Up Repair and the boot options went fine, I even
logged into Windows Vista but when Preparing your Desktop it hung up. I will
try again
 
I'd try it again then try the Recovery Options for System Restore and
Complete PC Restore after that (same route, short time) then I'd use one of
the Two Boot Repair Methods. There are tutorials on site.

CH

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