Startup problem in vista- missing boot manager

Hello friends
i had windows xp in drive c:\ and i install vista in drive d:\
my active partition in c:\
i also have a image of xp (i create it with Norton Ghost)
i replace my windows xp with this image
after that i could not start vista (i know that my c partition should have a
folder name BOOT and it relates vista startup) i copy a folder from d:\ to
c:\ but i can not see vista startup dialogs. i also use vista startup
recovery from it's DVD but it didn't solve problem.
now i want to build a new boot manager for vista.
what should i do?

On 15 May, 16:44, Borhan <Bor...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hello friends
> i had windows xp in drive c:\ and i install vista in drive d:\
> my active partition in c:\
> i also have a image of xp (i create it with Norton Ghost)
> i replace my windows xp with this image
> after that i could not start vista (i know that my c partition should have a
> folder name BOOT and it relates vista startup) i copy a folder from d:\ to
> c:\ but i can not see vista startup dialogs. i also use vista startup
> recovery from it's DVD but it didn't solve problem.
> now i want to build a new boot manager for vista.
> what should i do?

I had the same problem, although if i booted the machine with the dvd
in the drive, but didn't select 'boot from disc' it boots fine, are
you getting a missing bootmgr message?

If you can get it to boot, I would pass on the suggestion which was
given to me, which was to download VistaBootPro (google it) which
apparently will take over the boot process.

John

"Borhan" <Borhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EB21512F-647E-4631-92F0-6EF00D6A981D@microsoft.com...
> Hello friends
> i had windows xp in drive c:\ and i install vista in drive d:\
> my active partition in c:\
> i also have a image of xp (i create it with Norton Ghost)
> i replace my windows xp with this image
> after that i could not start vista (i know that my c partition should have
> a
> folder name BOOT and it relates vista startup) i copy a folder from d:\ to
> c:\ but i can not see vista startup dialogs. i also use vista startup
> recovery from it's DVD but it didn't solve problem.
> now i want to build a new boot manager for vista.
> what should i do?


Check out the 'bootrec.exe' command via your Vista DVD.
Boot from your DVD and choose the 'Command Prompt' option, after entering
System Recovery.

bootrec /?

eg

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd

--
Jon

download and install VistaBootPro.
it runs on xp and vista.
it has options to recreate multi boot menu.

when you restored xp you wiped out the boot menu.



mikeyhsd@comcast.net



"Borhan" <Borhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EB21512F-647E-4631-92F0-6EF00D6A981D@microsoft.com...
Hello friends
i had windows xp in drive c:\ and i install vista in drive d:\
my active partition in c:\
i also have a image of xp (i create it with Norton Ghost)
i replace my windows xp with this image
after that i could not start vista (i know that my c partition should have a
folder name BOOT and it relates vista startup) i copy a folder from d:\ to
c:\ but i can not see vista startup dialogs. i also use vista startup
recovery from it's DVD but it didn't solve problem.
now i want to build a new boot manager for vista.
what should i do?

On 15 May, 17:09, "Jon" <Email_Addr...@SomewhereOrOther.com> wrote:
> "Borhan" <Bor...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>
> news:EB21512F-647E-4631-92F0-6EF00D6A981D@microsoft.com...
>
> > Hello friends
> > i had windows xp in drive c:\ and i install vista in drive d:\
> > my active partition in c:\
> > i also have a image of xp (i create it with Norton Ghost)
> > i replace my windows xp with this image
> > after that i could not start vista (i know that my c partition should have
> > a
> > folder name BOOT and it relates vista startup) i copy a folder from d:\ to
> > c:\ but i can not see vista startup dialogs. i also use vista startup
> > recovery from it's DVD but it didn't solve problem.
> > now i want to build a new boot manager for vista.
> > what should i do?
>
> Check out the 'bootrec.exe' command via your Vista DVD.
> Boot from your DVD and choose the 'Command Prompt' option, after entering
> System Recovery.
>
> bootrec /?
>
> eg
>
> bootrec /fixmbr
> bootrec /fixboot
> bootrec /scanos
> bootrec /rebuildbcd
>
> --
> Jon

Thanks, I tried VistaBootPro last night but it failed to fix my boot
issues, I'll give ytour suggestion a try, sounds promising :-)