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| Guest | Vista dual boot, aborted setup loop I have a bit of a strange situation. I have Vista Business installed as a dual boot on a partition on my machine. The dual boot works fine between my XP and the Vista operating system. However, this has been difficult for me to use as a developer, testing my software on the Vista platform, and having to reboot back and forth all the time. So I installed Virtual PC, and attempted to put Vista on the virtual machine. When I attempted to installed Vista, it apparently was trying to run the install on my XP operating system, and not the virtual machine (it seems it was not the actual active window, but it was difficult to tell). So I aborted the install, and it rolled back my XP operating system, which seems to still be working fine. But it has left a Windows Setup boot option in my list of bootable OS's, and it is set to start after only 2 seconds. It loads that, then reboots again quickly, then again I have two seconds to change it to boot to either XP (earlier version of Windows) or Vista. This is a pain in the you-know-what, so I am wondering if there is a solution to this. I downloaded the tool VistaBootPro, and if I look at the "detailed" view, I can see the Setup option listed there (see below). But if I go to manage the OS entries, I only see the two (earlier version, and Vista). Windows Legacy OS Loader ------------------------ identifier {ntldr} device partition=C: path \ntldr description Earlier Version of Windows Windows Setup ------------- identifier {cbd971bf-b7b8-4885-951a-fa03044f5d71} device partition=C: path \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows Setup locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} osdevice partition=C: systemroot \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows resumeobject {732bbe4e-3720-11dc-a720-806e6f6e6963} nx OptOut detecthal Yes winpe Yes Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {b7091790-2993-11dc-8c28-8236fbf635fb} device partition=D: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Microsoft Windows Vista locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} osdevice partition=D: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {b7091791-2993-11dc-8c28-8236fbf635fb} nx OptIn Any ideas? thanks |
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