Sometimes my DD freezes on the progress screen, I have to turn off at the power button & start again, this can happen several times in a row, so...
Go into DD & manually set Vista or 7 active and hide the other. OSS will not see 7 & will only see Vista if you have build 2160. See the thread...
See MudCrab's web-site for a how-to!! See the bottom of one of MudCrab's posts for links - there are plenty of those!!
Would be nice if we had the choice to use date/time as part of the backup name in place of the incremental numbering system i.e. 1, 2, 3, & (1)1,...
Have you tried the latest build: 9709, this seems to iron out a few of the plethora of problems!
OK, I've sorted the card reader issue - followed the troubleshooter on the Dell web-site. What actually sorted it was totally powering the system...
Hmmm, most strange, I restored my pre-OSS Vista from backup, but the card reader drives are still not there. Just to make sure I hid Vista &...
The system just does not see the card readers (in Vista or XP), I first noticed that the drives were missing when I went in to disc management to...
Have a look at this : http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=231037 thread, it may well help you, well it helped me anyway! :)
Thanks for the extra info Mudcrab, it's nice to learn a bit more about it! To be fair, for the amount I will need to swap OSs, I could have done...
So when I first installed OSS should I have set both Vista & XP partitions as un-hidden? I've got a feeling that I may need to reinstall Vista...
Got into regedit, deleted mounted devices & restart and ........it works!!:D :D I can now boot to Vista or XP, just as it should, well done...
I shut the computer down & booted to DD to check where Vista booting files were before your last reply - they are on the Vista partition. I...
I've managed to get into the Task Manager, but regedit won't run - "Windows cannot find 'E:\regedit.exe'. ........." Looks like you are right...
OSS only lists 1 Vista now & it started to boot OK, but got stuck at the "Preparing your desktop" screen for a few minutes & has now gone to a...
Here's the bootwiz file...
OSS now sees 2 Vista OSs, I tried to boot the second one, but it keeps going round in circles & back to OSS. I tried the first one & it went to...
Just worked out why the boot was slow - I had tried hiding the Dell Utility partition, the system must have wasted time looking for it, un-hid it...
Yes it did! First time I tried to boot Vista it went to the "Windows error recovery" screen, I selected "Start normally" & it booted up OK, but...
Thanks again Mudcrab, Results were: Windows Boot Manager device partition=C: Windows Boot Loader device...
Hi Mudcrab, thanks for your reply & the info on the Windows shield – strange thing is that I had the program on there for some time before the...
Ooops - schoolboy error!!:-[ :-[ After managing to get Vista working again I quickly created a TI backup using my old rescue disc, as my new...
Hello again Mudcrab! Right, I have had problems along the way, but I now have a Vista installation that will boot when manually set to active,...
Hi Mudcrab, thanks for your further reply, unfortunately I did not notice that you had replied so quickly and I kept playing until I broke it...
Thanks for your reply Mudcrab. The OSS was build 2117, it appears that although I had updated DD to build 2160, it was still creating DD rescue...
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