Vista - dual boot to Vista and or XP gets lost

Hi,
I have a system based on a Gigabyte mobo with ata boot disk in two
partitions and with a SATA I disk.
I installed Vista on c: while having a Windows xp install on d:.
Then I lost de dual boot to Windows xp and I installed XP again.
Now I have lost the dual boot to Vista!
This is like running in circles behind my tail and I am really looking for a
solution :-) .
Kind regards,
Tony Thijs

Start XP, insert the Vista DVD, let it autoboot within XP, and install vista
from there.

"Tony Thijs" <tonythecatmiauw@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:Ox$5%23UzsGHA.5044@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I have a system based on a Gigabyte mobo with ata boot disk in two
> partitions and with a SATA I disk.
> I installed Vista on c: while having a Windows xp install on d:.
> Then I lost de dual boot to Windows xp and I installed XP again.
> Now I have lost the dual boot to Vista!
> This is like running in circles behind my tail and I am really looking for
> a solution :-) .
> Kind regards,
> Tony Thijs
>
>

Tony I have a Sata Drive C and IDE on E. I have XP Pro on the C (sata Drive)
all you do is leave XP PRO on the C drive and load vista on your next drive
in line D and poof you will have a dual boot. dont load vista on to your
first drive. Load it to the D, when you go to boot up you will see a window
pop up that says earlier version of windows or Microsoft windows. Earlier
version is of course XP and the other is vista. Poof your now dual booting.
You can boot to what you like each time windows restarts. It works I did it
piece of cake. ANd I did not unplug anything or use a special software etc...
Just leave Xp on the C Drive and load vista onto D.

Let me know how it works now.

"Tony Thijs" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a system based on a Gigabyte mobo with ata boot disk in two
> partitions and with a SATA I disk.
> I installed Vista on c: while having a Windows xp install on d:.
> Then I lost de dual boot to Windows xp and I installed XP again.
> Now I have lost the dual boot to Vista!
> This is like running in circles behind my tail and I am really looking for a
> solution :-) .
> Kind regards,
> Tony Thijs
>
>
>

Tony--

It doesn't matter as to DV-R or RW impacting your ISO burn. There is debate
aplenty on + or - and theoretically, plus DVDs have an edge but many people
I know who burn in volume for a living tell me it should not matter. This is
one of the better articles I've seen on that controversy if you enjoy a
little wave physics:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/print/article/113

The concept Colin is referencing on upper and lower filter values in the
registry is an important one, but it's not impacting your situation. When
the optical drive isn't recognized, there can be a number of reasons and
MSFT has about 5 MSKBs on remedies, including some specific to certain
software, but the most common situation is corrected by this MSKB--but
that's not in play here. That MSKB is:

CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive appears to be missing after you install
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320553/en-us

Software in someone's equation can confer those upper and lower filter
values into the registry and block the optical drives from being recognized
in the situation Colin was referencing.

Along with Colin, I would urge you to reburn again. You haven't done
anything wrong--it sounds like you've done a lot right. But sometimes for
unexplainable reasons a burn will work and there are times when it won't. I
also urge you to use a CRC checking utility available from MSFT for Beta 2 I
pulled off of one of their sites:

Reburn Option:

1) Burn slowly. 4X should be fine. Some of this probably varies with the
DVD writer
and the media.

2) Make sure to select an ISO tab if there is one on the burning software,
and make sure to close the session on the burn.

3) Try this tweak on your Windows XP drive and burn from there:

Get to Dev Manager by typing devmgmt.msc in run/win key + pause break or
Rt.click My Computer>Prop>hardware tab>Device Manager if you like 5 steps
instead of one cmd. If you're set to PMI here change to DMO and if set to
DMO change to PMI using these 5 steps:

1) Click the + in front of IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers

2) Double Click the Secondary IDE Controller

3) Click Advanced Settings

4) Under Device 1  Next to Transfer Mode choose DMA (or vise versa)>Click
OK

5) Reboot your System

6) Check your burn with a CRC utility and the links for this are below
including the direct Taco Bell link. It is very classy, sophisticated, and
very Wagner Edstrom/McCann Ericson esque for MSFT to adopt a Taco Bell url
for their public Beta 2 CRC checker. *Rock on Redmond Rednecks.*

Obtain CRC Utility for Vista Beta 2 Here: (The CRC utility is a way to check
the integrity of the ISO Burn which is probably where your problem
lies--it's #1 on the list):

Here's a link:

The CRC utility for Beta 2 is contained here (Scroll down to the bottom
under "Additional Information"

Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) for Beta 2 of Windows
Vista and WinFX Runtime Components
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Additional Information:

To verify that your download of an ISO file for the Windows SDK Beta 2 build
is not corrupt, download the CRC Utility. (Note: this is not a Microsoft
application. Use at your own risk.)

To run the CRC test, open a command prompt and run the utility. providing it
the name of the file (i.e. crc
c:\6.0.5383.1.1.WindowsSDK_Vista_idw.DVD.Rel.img) The CRC utility will run
two tests on the ISO: it will verify if the ISO is valid, and it will give
the AutoCRC signature for the file. The AutoCRC signature for the Windows
SDK Beta 2 ISO is 0x28434EEF. You should also confirm the size of the ISO is
correct: 1.14 GB (1,229,355,008 bytes).

If it fails any of these three tests, re-download the ISO.

I really like the direct link to it though if you right click CRC here>left
click Properties:
http://tacobell.iexbeta.com/longhorn/crc.exe

Good luck,

CH








"Tony Thijs" <tonythecatmiauw@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:Ox$5%23UzsGHA.5044@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I have a system based on a Gigabyte mobo with ata boot disk in two
> partitions and with a SATA I disk.
> I installed Vista on c: while having a Windows xp install on d:.
> Then I lost de dual boot to Windows xp and I installed XP again.
> Now I have lost the dual boot to Vista!
> This is like running in circles behind my tail and I am really looking for
> a solution :-) .
> Kind regards,
> Tony Thijs
>
>

Nevermind my post. Wrong thread reading 2 at once.

CH

"Tony Thijs" <tonythecatmiauw@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:Ox$5%23UzsGHA.5044@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I have a system based on a Gigabyte mobo with ata boot disk in two
> partitions and with a SATA I disk.
> I installed Vista on c: while having a Windows xp install on d:.
> Then I lost de dual boot to Windows xp and I installed XP again.
> Now I have lost the dual boot to Vista!
> This is like running in circles behind my tail and I am really looking for
> a solution :-) .
> Kind regards,
> Tony Thijs
>
>

Thanks for all the help.
I think one of the problems I met was in the fact that I originally did not
load my Sil 3112A SATA basedriver (because I use only one SATA drive)
through F6 at install of XP (on d as well as under Vista (c. This gave a
driveletter mixup.
Reinstalling XP then lets the bootmenu disapear. I then reïnstalled build
5472 over the existing Vista beta 2 (build 5384 ?).
This is what is running rather smoothly now, except from a little
hybernating problem that I posted on the maintenance forum:
Has anybody experience with connecting Wacom Tablets to Vista?
<<
Send: July 31 2006, Maintenance forum

Hello everybody,

Does anyone have a solution?

Yesterday before sleeping I left the my test PC defragmenting

When I woke up, the PC did not come out of hybernation and showed a black
screen

CTRL-Alt Del released the PC showing the menu for shutdown, hibernate,
restart etc.

Restarting released the machine from its freeze

Kind regards,

Tony Thijs



Vista beta 2.0 build 5472 July CTP

PC boots to Vista from c:

PC boots to Windows XP pro from d:

Gigabyte sinxp1394 motherboard

Apollo Geforce FX 5500 (256 Mb video memory)

512 Mb ddr 400 Twinmos memory running at 400

Hitachi ata bootdisk, two partitions, c: and d:

Maxtor SATA II 160Mb disk on a Sil 3112A controller with the newest Silicon
Image supplied ,,base'' driver installed with F6 at installation, two
partitions G: and H:

Memorysticks on f: and k:

DVD RAM on e:

LG DVD writer connected over USB on I

NVIDIA driver by Microsoft, driver collected from Microsoft at install

AC 97 driver by Microsoft, driver collected from Microsoft at install

Applications installed: Corel Paintshop Pro X (runs fine)



Next step: Install .NET 2.0, .NET 2.0 sp1, Visual Studio 2005, VS 2005
Workflow extensions, VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office), SQL Server 2005
Developer Edition, Office 2007 beta2, Wacom tablets and -the now available-
Wacom Vista Beta driver, US Robotics Maxg Wifi system, Palm TX PDA
synchronizing over WiFi

Kind regards,

Tony Thijs

Oriolus



"Tony Thijs" <tonythecatmiauw@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:Ox$5%23UzsGHA.5044@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I have a system based on a Gigabyte mobo with ata boot disk in two
> partitions and with a SATA I disk.
> I installed Vista on c: while having a Windows xp install on d:.
> Then I lost de dual boot to Windows xp and I installed XP again.
> Now I have lost the dual boot to Vista!
> This is like running in circles behind my tail and I am really looking for
> a solution :-) .
> Kind regards,
> Tony Thijs
>
>

There is a beta Vista driver for some, but not all, Wacom Tablets.
I haven't tried it myself, yet.

See http://www.wacom.com/productsupport/select.cfm
You will need to register to receive it.


"Tony Thijs" <tonythecatmiauw@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:ueJiOfGtGHA.1632@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for all the help.
> I think one of the problems I met was in the fact that I originally did
> not load my Sil 3112A SATA basedriver (because I use only one SATA drive)
> through F6 at install of XP (on d as well as under Vista (c. This gave
> a driveletter mixup.
> Reinstalling XP then lets the bootmenu disapear. I then reïnstalled build
> 5472 over the existing Vista beta 2 (build 5384 ?).
> This is what is running rather smoothly now, except from a little
> hybernating problem that I posted on the maintenance forum:
> Has anybody experience with connecting Wacom Tablets to Vista?
> <<
> Send: July 31 2006, Maintenance forum
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> Does anyone have a solution?
>
> Yesterday before sleeping I left the my test PC defragmenting
>
> When I woke up, the PC did not come out of hybernation and showed a black
> screen
>
> CTRL-Alt Del released the PC showing the menu for shutdown, hibernate,
> restart etc.
>
> Restarting released the machine from its freeze
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tony Thijs
>
>
>
> Vista beta 2.0 build 5472 July CTP
>
> PC boots to Vista from c:
>
> PC boots to Windows XP pro from d:
>
> Gigabyte sinxp1394 motherboard
>
> Apollo Geforce FX 5500 (256 Mb video memory)
>
> 512 Mb ddr 400 Twinmos memory running at 400
>
> Hitachi ata bootdisk, two partitions, c: and d:
>
> Maxtor SATA II 160Mb disk on a Sil 3112A controller with the newest
> Silicon Image supplied ,,base'' driver installed with F6 at installation,
> two partitions G: and H:
>
> Memorysticks on f: and k:
>
> DVD RAM on e:
>
> LG DVD writer connected over USB on I
>
> NVIDIA driver by Microsoft, driver collected from Microsoft at install
>
> AC 97 driver by Microsoft, driver collected from Microsoft at install
>
> Applications installed: Corel Paintshop Pro X (runs fine)
>
>
>
> Next step: Install .NET 2.0, .NET 2.0 sp1, Visual Studio 2005, VS 2005
> Workflow extensions, VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office), SQL Server
> 2005 Developer Edition, Office 2007 beta2, Wacom tablets and -the now
> available- Wacom Vista Beta driver, US Robotics Maxg Wifi system, Palm TX
> PDA synchronizing over WiFi
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tony Thijs
>
> Oriolus
>
>
>
> "Tony Thijs" <tonythecatmiauw@community.nospam> wrote in message
> news:Ox$5%23UzsGHA.5044@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>> I have a system based on a Gigabyte mobo with ata boot disk in two
>> partitions and with a SATA I disk.
>> I installed Vista on c: while having a Windows xp install on d:.
>> Then I lost de dual boot to Windows xp and I installed XP again.
>> Now I have lost the dual boot to Vista!
>> This is like running in circles behind my tail and I am really looking
>> for a solution :-) .
>> Kind regards,
>> Tony Thijs
>>
>>
>
>