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Duel-Boot install mess
Andre Da Costa andre...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows 64bit general Here are some tutorials on using the Recovery Console: http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm 2) what is "fixmbr"? 3) is there a guide to the recovery console (never used before)? 4) what does this have to do with vista?.. win xp pro x64.

XP Recovery Console
Does anyone have any suggestions apart from telling me that I was stupid, which I very well know! Vista overwrote the boot sector. You'll have to re-install the XP boot files. If you have a XP CD you can boot to the recovery console then type the following two commands fixmbr fixboot Here's a description of the

Can I have Vista on Drive C and XP on another physical drive?
Theo t...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows 64bit general Windows Vista Repair Options Windows Vista does not contain a Recovery Console, therefore doing a repair install like that we are familiar with in Windows XP is not possible. Instead, if you need to replace the operating system,

Problematic Updates in Windows Vista
Folks are resisting Vista and the "Vista driver ONLY" issue [incompatibility] is driving folks nuts not to mention the glitches with VISTA itself denying It is possible that you may have to rebuild the boot.ini file, which is best done by booting to recovery console and running the bootcfg /rebuild command:

Problem: Recovery Console keeps getting broken
Unlike previous NT version which use ntldr and boot.ini to boot, Vista doesn't use these files and removing Vista does not remove the boot loader it installed, Issue command: fixntfs.exe -xp The command has to be run from the C:\boot folder. 3- Boot to the XP Recovery console and issue commands: fixmbr and if

Vista Won't Boot. Computer Won't Boot from Disc
In any case, I have a lot to do this week, <s>. But again, much of what others and yourself complain about in Windows XP (or Vista, for that matter) are due .... There's also a Recovery Console that runs from the installation CD and allows you to access the file system. XP also has a cache of DLL files that it can

Can't Recover Vista
Close the command console. Step 9. Open the Control Panel. Step 10. Click 'User Accounts and Family Safety' then 'User Accounts' then 'Manage another account'. I have today managed to install all 3 updates without any problems. I did this by activating the main Administrator account in Vista and running Windows

how can i restore windows XP from Vista?
For those of you that are unaware, RealVNC does not work well on Vista due to it's new security model. I have worked on a work around which works well in a workgroup environment but I am The exe file has a -noconsole switch which means that the exe file launches but does not display the command console.

boot locked to safe mode
Choosing this boot option does not - obviously - result in a boot but rather an error. If I choose the first "Vista" boot on the list the system boots to the OS installed on D: - as it should. If I choose to boot to the "Earlier Version of Windows" (XP pro on C:) another command window opens with boot.ini choices

Fixboot/FixMBR-???
Restore the Vista image file to the J drive. That should work for you. If you can see the OS menue choice use bootcfg/ scan On vista or what ever OS boots first use the command console and use the bootcfg /scan option which will add either Windows XP or Vista to the Archpath boot.ini file. You will then have the

Is there also a Windows XP Recovery Disc made available by Microso
At least now, Vista DVD boot into a maintenance OS (eventually). It's in the repair section, where you can drop to a command prompt and run the few things that aren't .... Yes, WinRE is still largely an automated "we'll do it for you" thing, but it's a vast improvement over Recovery Console, which was not even a

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers No label
We have successfully booted from an XP installation CD and entered the Recovery Console. Following hints on the web, we ran fixboot, fixmbr and bootcfg/rebuild but the system now hangs after reboot. Any suggestions? We'd prefer not to have to reinstall XP from scratch if possible... Many thanks, Andy How far does

Please Redesign the Command Prompt Console
That means no Bart, Linux "capture", WinPE access either; not even Recovery Console and ChkDsk will run. Rule #1: Don't eat my data. Fail that, and I don't care .... OpenGL also does have a few advantages over DirectX: - Unlike DirectX, it doesn't change everytime a new version comes out. New features are added,

Microsoft Support Incident # SRX061128605350
What does it do? There are 3 things there that have saved my behind. chkdsk /r that will run chkdsk and repair, fixmbr which rebuilds the master boot record, and fixboot which will get you back to normal after running a dual boot system. The latter 2 just saved me yesterday after recieving Vista RC1 from MS and it

Is there a version of BartPE for Vista? The same for ERUNT
Close the command console. Step 9. Open the Control Panel. Step 10. Click 'User Accounts and Family Safety' then 'User Accounts' then 'Manage another account'. When you check Windows update to see whether updates have successfully installed, it will usually say succeeded. That, however, does not mean that the

Boot disk does not open any window
If you try a Repair Install and end up at aC:\ prompt (dos prompt) you are in the Recovery Console and need to try again carefully to follow the simple steps in the .... I figured I'd just get Vista working on sda1 so I tried to install it.... loads files into system, does that little status bar, then goes to black

Autochk.exe Corrupt
I have been looking into a program called vista boot pro. I would start with 2 blanked out drives and install the operating systems from scratch. I do not want to have to change the boot up order each time. I would like it to come up with a menu and choose xp or vista like xp can do with the recovery console.

Inactive XP Partition after Vista Install
The drive can be parititoned using, say a Windows XP disc .. boot to the Recovery Console use diskpart to partition the use the FORMAT utility do a full format (not quick) NTFS using the following command at the prompt: format c: /fs:ntfs Reboot and install Windows Vista from scratch - clean .

Need to recover (encrypted) files from XP install on another ...
Try assesing the Recovery Console on that XP CD you have...When the Welcome to Setup screen appears press R watch for it. When you are prompted type in the Admin password...if the password is blank just press enter. This will give you a command prompt...and here is a list of commands as well as more info on

DriveCrypt Vista Boot Problem
If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the Windows installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console. 4. Otherwise, there's the good old FDISK and FORMAT commands. How you would get to them in XP or Vista is a good question and one I haven't had to deal with yet.