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I have a computer with a Vista Home Premium installation that up to

now has been working fine, but today the Vista operating system no

longer booted. The hard disc is fine, and the BIOS shows the proper

information, but the Vista boot screen never comes up. I have two

other Windows operating systems (XP Pro and XP x64) running on

partitions on the same drive, and the XP boot loader still works for

those. I tried repairing the Vista boot with my Vista installation

DVD that came with the computer, but the installation did not

recognize the drive, which is SATA.



I am able to get the proper SATA drivers from my PC manufacturer

(Gateway), but I'm not sure how to go about using them with the Vista

DVD to restore the boot loader, since it doesn't recognize the hard

drive.



Any ideas on how to proceed?



Thank very much.



~John


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Go Here:

www.istartedsomething.com/20060622/installing-and-uninstall-vista-beta-2-for-dual-boot-with-xp/" >www.istartedsomething.com/20060622/installing-and-uninstall-vista-beta-2-for-dual-boot-with-xp/

Or Here:

windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/12/05/windows-recovery-environment.aspx" >windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/12/05/windows-recovery-environment.aspx



"John DeStefano" <john.destefano@gmail.com>wrote in message

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EasyBCD by NeoSmart Technologies would be your answer, it provides a

graphical front end to the BCDEdit Command line that makes it easy for you

to define start-up settings and edit boot entries on the new Windows

Longhorn Server/Vista boot manager. neosmart.net/dl.php >neosmart.net/dl.php





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Andre

Blog: adacosta.spaces.live.com" >adacosta.spaces.live.com

My Vista Quickstart Guide:

adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry" >adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry

"John DeStefano" <john.destefano@gmail.com>wrote in message



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Hi Kue2,



Thanks, but ...



On Nov 21, 1:51 pm, "Kue2" <K...@hotmail.com>wrote:

This explains how to install Vista on a new system with other OSes.

Vista is already installed on my system; I just can't get it to boot.



This explains how to use a Windows Recovery Environment partition to

recover an installation. Unfortunately, my system does not have one

of these recovery partitions.



Thanks,

~John



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Thanks, Andre. I have used this before to manage the Vista boot

loader, but I didn't think of it in this case, as I don't have access

to Vista at the moment, and I had no idea that EasyBCD also worked in

XP, which it does! I'll give it a try.



The part that bothers me is that there doesn't seem to be a legitimate

method of fixing this without installing a 3rd-party application

(EasyBCD), and that Vista's own installation script can't seem to fix

its own boot loader. :(



Thank you,

~John



On Nov 21, 2:32 pm, "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andre...@hotmail.com>

wrote:

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You can fix it by booting from the Vista DVD. It sounds like you may need to

load the vista hard drive controller. You can do this while booting from the

DVD. In figure 4 at the following link you would click on the Load Drivers

button. You would need the driver on a floppy, CD/DVD, USB flash drive or

external hard drive.



www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html" >www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html



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Kerry Brown

Microsoft MVP - Shell/User

www.vistahelp.ca" >www.vistahelp.ca





"John DeStefano" <john.destefano@gmail.com>wrote in message

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