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Dual Boot with windows XP as first partition and vista second
Mehrdad Mehr...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi I had installed XP on [C] And Server2003 on [D], then I formatted [c] And installed Vista How can I edit boot menu to add Server2003 to it too? If your suggestion is bcdedit, please say me that exactly what should I do.

Rescuing XP After Vista Clean Install
"Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi Roy, You can add it using bcdedit, but most find it easier to simply use VistaBootPro: http://www.vistabootpro.org/ For bcdedit, Using Norton Ghost I overwrote the Win XP Pro partition, with a cleaner version. When I rebooted I had lost the possibility to boot into Vista.

[IT_Group:5133] FAQ: Secrets to Running Multiple ...
Here's the steps: 1) Install Windows XP 2) Install Windows Vista on a clean partition 3) Reboot to the recovery console and type: fixboot - OK fixmbr - results in Now, since I deleted the Windows Vista partition I don't have BCDEDIT.EXE, so I can't even try to configure my boot manager to add new boot options!

vista xp dualboot
... have repaired xp boot and vista boot by using bcdedit. mikey...@sport.rr.commikeyhsd@sport.rr.com "CZ" <C...@no99spam.com> wrote in message Entries" Select "Add new op system entry" Select "Windows Legacy" Enter a name (to show in the Vista boot mgr menu) Select drive letter E: Select Apply Reboot Select XP

How do you repair windows entirely using your Windows Vista DVD
I decided to try out Vista, and since I had no intention of an upgrade or even possibly messing up my existing XP install, I decided to do it in a spare Then I tried using bcdedit from the recovery console and adding in extra false boot configurations, so that the boot menu might stay up for some length of time

Desk top icon disappearing and recycle bin emptying
NOSPAM microsoft public windows vista installation_setup BCDedit is a pain in the backside, it requires command line parameter to do everything. I would like to add my XP boot record to my RAID 5 bootup. Do I need to transfer boot.ini and .. . from the XP partition? I believe this problem is more complicated,

Vista and 4 gig of ram
If your dual boot is XP did you install XP first as you should? I don't know what about Add/Remove Programs is blue screening you if that's what you mean by "Program Uninstall. Use Bcdedit.exe to manually create an entry in the BCD Boot.ini file for the earlier version of the Windows operating system.

Small technical question
This should allow the boot files to be written to the root of the drive with the XP/Vista dual boot. Then you can erase/format/remove the other drive. You may need to use bcdedit to re-add the XP volume to the bootloader afterwards, but it should show up automatically. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase"

Multi-Boot is not Working, Vista was added to a WXP Pro System
You can add the switch by the following steps: 1. Reboot Vista to safe mode with command line 2. Run the command : bcdedit /set PAE ForceEnable 3. However, you can substitute the WinHlp32.exe file from XP but Vista will not let you rename or replace the stub file, What you first must do is via the properties

Adding /3gb Switch in Vista
Rick Rogers r...@mvps.org microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi, You need to to use bcdedit /add from a command prompt, see instructions here: I have 1 computer with 2 harddrive, i had XP Home on C drive and i have XP Pro on D drive, after installation of Vista on C drive, its impossible to start

Vista frozen after vista updates installed
Then I tried using bcdedit from the recovery console and adding in extra false boot configurations, so that the boot menu might stay up for some length of time. I can tap F8, or hold shift, or any of the things that used to do something in XP, and still nothing. I might see a flash of text from the boot loader,

Boot Configuration Data and Troubleshooting
Which funny enough I had on before and took it off (which explains why I didn't have this problem before) The full command to run from an Elevated Command prompt (means run as admin) is bcdedit /Set IncreaseUserVa 3072 After adding this option back in, I can quicksave all I want when exceeding 2GB.

5308 BCEDIT question- VistaBootPRO
Rick Rogers r...@mvps.org microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi Roy, You can add it using bcdedit, but most find it easier to simply use VistaBootPro: Using Norton Ghost I overwrote the Win XP Pro partition, with a cleaner version. When I rebooted I had lost the possibility to boot into Vista.

Please help me to recover from loss of MBR
Charset used by NTLDR in your localised version of Windows XP. If you #. don't know, maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page helps. .... (and if you have chosen to keep Windows in " "your disk), you can uninstall the Debian-Installer Loader through the " "Windows Add/Remove Programs dialog in Control Panel.

Installer Issue
Thanks, -- Jonathan Horne In vista there is a command-line tool for editing the boot sector: *bcdedit* *Screenshot* http://neosmart.net/gallery/v/neosmart/EasyBCD/1_50/Add-Remove+Entries.png.html All I did was dual boot vista and xp with the help of this utility. RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens

MSXML6 - DOM: E_OUTOFMEMORY
That's the behvior when Vista is installed by booting and when installed from XP. So i think while doing this itself, better provide Vol label to drives Also to manage BCD , there's Vista builtin editor BCDedit, but can use third party editors as EasyBCD or Vista BootPro (both are GUI based) which are easy to

windbg in Vista
Bcdedit adding boot volumes: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791568.aspx VistaBootPro: http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/intro.php -- Best I have installed Vista 32bit buisness addition in a dual boot configuration with XP on my laptop. XP resides in the C: partition, and Vista buisness is in

Are multiple Debug modes possible with Vista?
Tak, zrobiłem to dzięki EasyBCD, ale chetnie usłysze jak to zrobic przy pomocy BCDEDIT :) Pierwszy z brzega link znaleziony w Google podaje rozwiązanie: http://blogs. msdn.com/ben/archive/2007/01/31/so-you-want-to-add-xp-to-your-vista-installation.aspx -- M. [Windows - Shell/User MVP] /odpowiadając na priv zmień px

Windows XP & MacOS X in dual boot
I booted with that CD and managed to install the Vista boot manager on the C: drive using BCDEDIT command and copies of \BOOT folder, and the files: BCD and I also used the same article to add back the {legacy} boot option (for Win XP ntldr) to the BCD. When the machine boots and attempts to boot using the

BCDedit? help me find my xp install from withing Vista
Je kan manueel toevoegen met bcdedit (CLI) maar er is ondertussen een veel handerige (GUI) tool, namelijk EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/gallery/v/neosmart/EasyBCD/1_60/Adding+Linux.png.html Nochtans heb ik me meer uit de nood gewerkt met Linux door fouten te herstellen die een impact hebben op beide systemen (MBR,