"NTLDR missing" during reboot to Vista x64 snapshot.

Hello everyone

I spent some time yesterday trying to install Vista x64 Home Premium.
I created an empty snapshot under Windows XP and installed Vista into it.
Under Vista I then installed FD-ISR (Latest Build 233) and created an archive of the Vista snapshot afterwards.
FD-ISR showed the newly created Vista snapshot as active. So far so good.

After rebooting into my Windows XP snapshot I tried to boot back into my Vista snapshot but got the infamous "NTLDR missing" message.
By the way FD-ISR displayed under Win XP for the Vista snapshot use a size of 0.0 GByte.

Finally I checked that the boot order in the bios is correct.

Perhaps someone can enlighten me and can give me some hints on how to solve this installation problem.

Thanks

Frank

I followed exactly these guidelines (found in a different thread at wilders):

 

Try this:
1. delete the two snapshots.
2. install windows vista first or restore from image if available.
3. install FD-ISR on vista.
4. create second snapshot an restore xp archive on it.
5. boot to xp, install FD-ISR, delete primary snapshot and restore vista archive.
Hope it works

 

Hello alloucho

I will try your suggested sequence as last resort measure and report back.
I had previously installed Windows XP into an empty snapshot and thought
the installation of Vista would be as easy as the XP installation. But Vista
has introduced a new Windows Boot Loader making things more complicated.

Thanks
Frank

 

The solution :

The Vista boot mamager and the loader were divided
among my System partition on drive C: and my data partition on drive D:.

EasyBCD displayed this configuration:

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
device partition=D: <------------------
description Windows Boot Manager
timeout 3

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
device partition=C: <----------------------
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
nx OptIn


After unplugging my non-OS drive D: and repeating the installation
EasyBCD shows this:


Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
nx OptIn

This is consistent, both are on the same boot partition now.


Frank