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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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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

Richard Urban wrote:

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.
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

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. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
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Richard Urban wrote: 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.
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 Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:

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.

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

You are gonna have to wait until Monday, I am not going into town to buy DVD blanks until then. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
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Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote: 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.
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 Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:

You are gonna have to wait until Monday, I am not going into town to buy DVD blanks until then.

hehehe...I put all of my Vista iso's on dvd+rw's. :-) Frank

I need to get one of those. :) -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
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Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote: You are gonna have to wait until Monday, I am not going into town to buy DVD blanks until then.
hehehe...I put all of my Vista iso's on dvd+rw's. :-) Frank