silverbullit Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 I triple installed and I was able to boot into all of them. But something messed my boot.ini in windows. Now it won't load. I thought it might be a virus but I checked my system and no. I can still boot into vista. So I've been trying to fix it in vista. Is there a way I might be able to access the boot setting from vista? Or do I just put in a new boot.ini file in XP and let vista fix it. Vista manages my boot setting for windows. I bet some of you must have already done this. After all Vista is the bigges download even in history. Vista is awesome by the way. Its worth it. Best thing I ever got for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schale01 Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 Do you see any boot options for Vista like: Windows Vista Earlier Verion Windows If you do not try setting your timeout to longer. -type "bcdedit /timeout 15" in the run menu you shouldn't need to mess with the boot.ini but if your OS is still not showing up. Try recreating your boot.ini on the XP partition. (I assume you know how boot.ini works since you didn't ask about it.) The Vista bootmanager should detect it and load it as a legacy windows option. I don't think you have to do any commands through bcdedit to make it detect boot.ini but I may be mistaken. Still learning on Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverbullit Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 No I copied my boot ini all over again. It gives me the option but when I click on XP it doesn't load up. To hell with XP. Im using vista and OS X. Theres no way to fix it because vista modifies the boot.ini in install. I even tried to fix it with the install disk. No good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlyn036 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 No I copied my boot ini all over again. It gives me the option but when I click on XP it doesn't load up. To hell with XP. Im using vista and OS X. Theres no way to fix it because vista modifies the boot.ini in install. I even tried to fix it with the install disk. No good. Vista doesn't use boot.ini, therefore it does not modify it. Having gone through a major ordeal with Vista a month ago, I gained a thorough understanding of how it boots. It uses an entirely different method that was touched on above briefly. You can edit this booting mechanism to load Windows XP as long as you haven't damaged any of the original XP files and it's still intact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanbperiod Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 i know this is an old topic, but silverbullit, how did you get the vista bootmgr to boot osx? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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