|
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Welcome to Windows Vista Forums. Our forum is dedicated to helping you find solutions with any problems, errors or issues you are experiencing with Windows Vista. The Vista forum also covers news and updates and has an extensive Windows Vista tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks. |
| |||||||
 |
| |
4 Weeks Ago
| #1 (permalink) |
| | VistaBootPro with Vista and Win7 The free version of VistaBootPro 3.3.0 works with Win7. The only requirement is that Win7 must be the boot OS. It doesn't matter in what order the OSs are installed. If you boot the Vista drive and select Win7 in the boot menu you get an error because Vista's bootmgr tries to load the winload.exe file in Win7's system32 folder, and it's seen as a corrupted Vista file. If you boot the Win7 drive and select Vista, Win7 recognizes the Vista winload file and Vista boots normally. |
My System Specs |
|
4 Weeks Ago
| #2 (permalink) |
| | Re: VistaBootPro with Vista and Win7 That's pretty much normal for any Win-OS. The older version's boot files cannot load a newer version as they lack the programming necessary, only the reverse. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Ian D" <taurus@newsgroup> wrote in message news:OwkFsc2VKHA.2932@newsgroup Quote: > The free version of VistaBootPro 3.3.0 works with Win7. The > only requirement is that Win7 must be the boot OS. It doesn't > matter in what order the OSs are installed. If you boot the Vista > drive and select Win7 in the boot menu you get an error because > Vista's bootmgr tries to load the winload.exe file in Win7's system32 > folder, and it's seen as a corrupted Vista file. If you boot the Win7 > drive and select Vista, Win7 recognizes the Vista winload file and > Vista boots normally. > > |
| My System Specs |
|
4 Weeks Ago
| #3 (permalink) |
| | Re: VistaBootPro with Vista and Win7 One only has to boot from the Win7 DVD and repair the bootmgr. I have done it and I can boot with Vista or Win7 as the default. "Rick Rogers" <rick@newsgroup> a écrit dans le message de news:uhnU9y7VKHA.4780@newsgroup Quote: > That's pretty much normal for any Win-OS. The older version's boot files > cannot load a newer version as they lack the programming necessary, only > the reverse. > > -- > Best of Luck, > > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org > > "Ian D" <taurus@newsgroup> wrote in message > news:OwkFsc2VKHA.2932@newsgroup Quote: >> The free version of VistaBootPro 3.3.0 works with Win7. The >> only requirement is that Win7 must be the boot OS. It doesn't >> matter in what order the OSs are installed. If you boot the Vista >> drive and select Win7 in the boot menu you get an error because >> Vista's bootmgr tries to load the winload.exe file in Win7's system32 >> folder, and it's seen as a corrupted Vista file. If you boot the Win7 >> drive and select Vista, Win7 recognizes the Vista winload file and >> Vista boots normally. >> >> |
| My System Specs |
|
| Thread Tools | |
| |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Forum | |||
| Install win7 VPC on a Hyper-V win7 VM | Virtual PC | |||
| XPHome/XPPro/Vista/Win7 Quad boot - how to remove Vista and Win7? | General Discussion | |||
| Install SBS after Vista ?? VistaBootPro help ? | Vista General | |||
| VistabootPro - edit Vista startup menu's graphically | Vista General | |||
| VistaBootPRO Version 1 for Windows Vista | Vista General | |||
