FIX bootloader to ecognized a restored OS partition

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Phil - 15 Feb 2007 20:50 GMT

I have Xp installed on C and Vista on V. I restored an Acronis image of XP to
my c drive and now I no longer have the ability to boot to Vista. Vista does
not use the Boot.ini anymore. But it did put this in the boot.ini file
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.

I search the V:\ drive where vista is installed and cannot find the
BCEDIT.exe. But even if I do find it will it fix my problem. I am assuming
that when you install Vista in a dual boot configuration that it puts the
file required to give us boot options on C:

I hope I gave enough info. So how do I recreate the boot loader after
restoring my XP partition.
Thanks,
Phil

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Rock - 15 Feb 2007 21:01 GMT

>I have Xp installed on C and Vista on V. I restored an Acronis image of XP
>to
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> I hope I gave enough info. So how do I recreate the boot loader after
> restoring my XP partition.

Use VistaBoot Pro to help with this. It can be run either from XP or Vista.
http://www.vistabootpro.org/

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Phil - 15 Feb 2007 21:26 GMT

I just checked that out and it appears to only work if you have a backup of
the XP partition from after you installed VISTA. I assume it tries to find
the BCD files from the c drive. I was hoping it could create the BCD files
from scratch and maybe allow for searching to find Vista installations on
other partitions and/or drives or prompt the user to point the app to a vista
partition.

Now today I used acronis to backup up both partitions to 1 .tib file. Do you
see a problem with restoring both partitions from an image. OR does VISTA
create a secret hidden partition somewhere?

> >I have Xp installed on C and Vista on V. I restored an Acronis image of XP
> >to
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> Use VistaBoot Pro to help with this. It can be run either from XP or Vista.
> http://www.vistabootpro.org/

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Rock - 16 Feb 2007 08:39 GMT

>I just checked that out and it appears to only work if you have a backup of
> the XP partition from after you installed VISTA. I assume it tries to find
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>> Vista.
>> http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Vista doesn't create any secret partitions, that I know of at least.

How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to
troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us

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nickpasko - 20 May 2008 06:11 GMT

Phil, I stumbled upon the very same problem, and the solution was
surprisingly simple.

The real problem is - you have misspelled the "BCDedit.exe" into
"BCedit.exe"
run the command promt (cmd.exe) and use BCDedit.exe under it.

Good luck!

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