smh0101 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 I installes Vista on my WIN Xp Partition and reformated that partition. Well as usual the Acronis OS Selector was erased. So from Vista I installed Disk Director. Then activated OS Selector. When I booted into Acronis both OS's were labeled as unknown. So I found OS X and booted into it. It is perfect. HOWEVER I cant boot into Vista (RTM). So now wtf do I do? Everytime I try to load Vista I just get a blank screen with a blinkin cursor or occasionally an awkward symbol (music notes occasionally and a "u" with an accent) How do I get back to Vista???? Any ideas at all. PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Did you try to repair from Vista install menu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
track09 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 For some reason, most 3rd party bootloaders won't boot Vista yet. It's been like this since the beta. GRUB, Acronis, and many other related bootloaders will give you the "Music notes and u", as you described it, and get no further. What you need to do is run the MBR fix from the Vista DVD, and you will only be able to boot to vista. From there, look around and find some of the many other methods to dual boot the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmw Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 if you have the windows in another hard drive. Try going into bios and put the hard drive that vista is on to boot first, and when u want os x go back to bios and use that hard drive to go first. Its what i do since u cant do dull boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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