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win XP x64 Boot Failure and unable to enter Recovery Console
So I went through the process of removing the Vista boot manager and Vista itself. I booted from the Vista DVD and got into the recovery console. COM were missing from my XP partition - obviously removed by Vista since Vista does not use NTLDR to boot. I ended up formatting the Vista partition (which I no

NTFS vs Fat32
I started the recovery console from the WinXP CD and typed "fixboot" and "fixmbr", however this does not seem to fix the problem. I should probably tell you that the secondary SATA drive shows up as D: in the recovery console, while it shows up as F: in Vista and WinXP. (I have tried to change the drive letter of

RealVNC/Vista
The BIOS does warn 'current S-ATA config for XP/2000 ONLY' 3/ Software ...........BIOS is vers AX1.4F latest is AX1.8F with one fix = DVD compatibility ...........We can likely assume Apparently you cannot use recovery console to flash you BIOS; is this correct? also is it safe to use the CD img off bootdisk.com?

Finally, I've come up with a kind of solution for incremental cloning.
Well, he wouldn't be installing Vista, he would be repairing the bootloader. VistaBootPro is the choice of most, though I prefer just using bcdedit from the command prompt. For that, he'd need the disk to load the recovery console. If he doesn't have one, then VBP is the way to go. I don't believe the OP has enough

Phantom Recovery Console in Windows Boot Manager
Luke Chalmers LukeChalm...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Hello all, Okay! I have been working on this for a while and I feel and I am getting somewhere with The exe file has a -noconsole switch which means that the exe file launches but does not display the command console.

Win2k boot sector and NTLDR
Result: Vista does not boot. I have researched the subject but still have not found a solution. The microsoft vista deployment step by step seems awfully complex. I would boot into recovery console and copy the files form the flash drive to the target PC (boot.ini to C:\ and hal.dll to C:\windows\system32).

Recovered my XP install... still one problem. (Vista testers ...
Does this mean the drive is good and it's something else, or could the drive still be bad? "Walter Mautner" <leafyes.20.eatalls...@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message Btw. have you tried just "enter" for the "non"-password? -- vista policy violation: Microsoft optical mouse found penguin patterns on mousepad.

Fixboot/FixMBR-???
Hi, When does the phantom appear? And have you checked the boot tab of msconfig? -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP Hi, I recently installed Vista atop an old Windows XP installation (not an upgrade). As expected, Windows created the windows.old directory with all my old files.

Phantom Recovery Console in Windows Boot Manager
ls" folder on the installation CD using Recovery Console. Windows (or the part that is accessible to me) could not access Regedit.exe and I have not been able to figure out how to work the commands in the Recovery Console. I'm going to take another look at the instructions for Recovery Console.

Phantom Recovery Console in Windows Boot Manager
pkuchnicki pkuchni...@gmail.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup We have lift-off, Houston! Where's the moon? create a slipstreamed CD from my original XP OS and SP2 interleaved, boot from it and try to get to the Recovery Console where I can execute the FIXMBR and maybe the FIXBOOT commands.

Phantom Recovery Console in Windows Boot Manager
It does not take long." "All that's left is to try to repair my computer. i've tried booting from the Windows Vista DVD, and selecting the "Repair My Computer" option. tHEY ARE PRECISELY FOR THAT, but if you don't have any appropriate restore points then system restore from a command prompt won't work.

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers
Does anybody have any ideas how I can fix this without having to totally reinstall everything? Why can'tI just copy the good file from the Vista DVD to my OS? All I care about is my computer scans itself without recovery console :) So here are the steps to fix this problem in Vista... the only problem is you

Vista and partion troubles
Mis...@gmail.com computer-tech-support You would need your Vista DVD to go into the recovery console and replace the file. Also, I believe if you want However, I no longer have my Vista upgrade CD, and I believe all it does is copy original system files from the CD to the hard drive? However, obviously the OS

Restore XP after Vista install - help!
Does Vista have a new Cmd Console. The existing CMD console is a legacy of 80's, I think Microsoft should redesign the console. Make it like to powerful Unix Shells. The existing one is ugly. Yes, Vista has a new Command console. It looks just like the current one except that Alt-Enter doesn't work in the build I

Dual Boot Vista and XP
Also, you can install Recovery Console to boot menu, eliminating the need of Windows CD and the lengthy process of getting to the Recovery Console. Instructions:http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/bootini.htm It should be noted that Vista uses a different way of managing the boot process.

Can we use Win98SE Explorer in Win2K?
All I care about is my computer scans itself without recovery console :) So here are the steps to fix this problem in Vista... the only problem is you will As that command resets the drive, it should not run autochk at this point. If it does, then something you have installed is causing the dirty bit to be set

XP Recovery Console
Another fail-safe would be to use ERUNT, which does backup the registry in Vista, as long as you: - set it to run as administrator - specify the backup .... The other dos commands are not of much use in the context of fixing Windows. DOS commands? Recovery Console is a 32-bit canned set of tools as driven by a CLI,

What do YOU expect from Vista SP1 ??
This news item does not inclde a question. It is informational. Installing a Vista OS with a dual boot to XP 02/07/07 Currently Vista installation will not It may or may not have a valid identity. If both the Vista identity field and the earlier version identity field are present all is OK. Exit the command

Dual boot problem, Windows Vista RC1 and Windows XP
Great means you would be using Vista on that box right now. I'm not trying to be cute. I want you to get fixed; but I'm just trying to lend precision to what happened. If this is an upgrade there are remedies and several MSKBs for setups that are unsuccessful. If I understand you correctly you have not in fact

Using Bootdisk CD
Vista's Win RE's tools have environments that don't require the command environment--it depends on the problem. I've outlined them on this group and the general one nearly 50 times in the past year and a half. My lament is that MSFT does all it can to make sure it's main vein of subenterprise customers won't get to