Sorry for the delay in responding -- work interfered. I don't immediately see the reason that you can't boot Vista. The BCD looks correct, but...
Very good. Yes, the folder reference is correct for 64-bit operating systems also (C:\Windows\System32). The partition=c: references in bold...
cyberjorge: The problem would have occurred with any partition manager. It is related to how the newer versions of Windows (Vista, Server 2008,...
Boot from the recovery disk and go to a command prompt. Enter the command bcdedit and please post the output here.
A 500 GB disk should display as 465 GiB in Windows Disk Management. The central point of this long thread was to explain why this is so. This has...
The changes can be applied to a broken BCD to repair it. You only need to be able to run bcdedit in order to do the repair, which can be done from...
That's good, so it sounds like the only issue is getting Windows to boot. Your error messages in post #1 indicate that the Master Boot Record...
Yes, you can create the recovery CD on another computer. An alternative is to log into your account on the Acronis web site (create one and...
If the above is not a typo then that's the problem. If the PC boots from the first partition then it needs to be a primary partition. Boot your PC...
Try disabling hibernation on your PC. Reboot. Then re-enable hibernation. See if that fixes the problem.
Berti: One of the great advantages of Grub4DOS is that you can locate the file grldr anywhere on any partition and Grub4DOS will find it....
If you are running Vista (or Windows 7) and want to display the output of bcdedit you need to run the command from an elevated command prompt. To...
That is a strange one. If Vista booted then there must be a BCD file somewhere on your disk. Is it in a hidden partition? While booting, bootmgr...
hc: It sounds likely that the recovery version of TI11 is unable to support the hardware in your new netbook. Recovery versions of TI use Linux...
Please read post 34 again carefully. All throughout this exercise your hard disk has not changed in size one iota. You're getting confused by the...
Berti: The quickest way to get up and running is to copy the ISO image file to your USB flash drive. If there is room you don't even need to...
I think the English version may have been 'bootrec' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. This...
Gus: That sounds right.
Gus: Then it sounds like your OS on drive 1 is completely independent of the OS on drive 2. It would be safe to delete the OS on drive 2 then....
Gus: Two questions first: 1. If you remove drive 2 from the PC does XP Home on drive 1 boot correctly? 2. If you remove drive 1 from the PC...
Part of learning is to fumble around and learn from the mistakes! I've sure made my share of them. One other recommendation is to avoid "mixed...
That's caused by Windows reassigning drive letters. When Windows boots and it detects new disks or partitions, it will assign a drive letter...
zeeone: Glad to hear that you got it working, but out of curiosity, what did you do to fix it?
I think it was the cluster size conversion that screwed up. Often chkdsk will find a bunch of file system errors after doing one of these...
Schule09: The error message means that the Linux recovery environment on the USB stick does not have the proper driver to detect your disk...
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