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Hi,
I had Vista installed on a partition and I installed Ubuntu on the remaining free space.
Now when I boot the computer the OS selection screen is GRUB. Ive used EasyBCD to configure my Vista boot loader. How do I get the computer to use the Vista boot...
Started by chamoon on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
You need to install Linux onto a hidden bootsector as shown for you:
How to use Windows Vista....
Then in Linux, follow the steps to add Linux to the Vista Bootloader.
In EasyBCD, select Reinstall the Vista Bootloader then Write MBR .
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I have a Dell 1210 laptop that was dual booting Vista (80Gig Primary Partition) with XP (20Gig partition). I recently used GParted to try and shrink the Vista Partition size and increase the XP partition size, since I need more XP space and rarely use...
Started by DodgerUSMC on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Follow these instructions:
Load Your Windows Vista CD above, simply:
type /RebuildBcd EDIT: Without a Vista installation disk, you can use the XP disk.
The boot sector is probably damaged too.
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I have herd it is possible to install the windows 7 boot loader on to a windows XP machine, has anyone got instructions for how to do this?
I am wishing to use the windows 7 boot loader to boot from a virtual hard drive, or on to XP on the physical hard...
Started by David Waters on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
If you have an OS in a virtual machine, you can't boot to it directly from the host's boot loader install the Windows Vista / 2008 / 7 bootloader onto a Windows XP machine and dual-boot Windows XP and Windows 2008 / 7 from the VHD (I don....
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If dual booting Windows & Linux, and also use GRUB, if you remove the Linux partition(s) you probably can no longer boot Windows. While this is very easy to fix if the Windows operating system is XP or earlier, it is a bit more complicated (but still ...
Started by tturrisi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ubuntuforums):
He did not bring....
My friends laptop refuses to boot due to broken boot loader been installed on it.
Is there a way to activate the vista partition from Ubuntu? I wonder the same.
What if I don't have a vista cd: it came pre-installed.
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I have recently completely formatted my computer's hard drive and installed a copy of Windows 7 on it to play with. However, because it has been a bit buggy on my system, I decided to reinstall my copy of XP on a second hard drive for day to day work ...
Started by Jay on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Windows XP does not know of Windows Vista or Windows 7 so when you install XP.
May want to read - Windows 7 and Vista share a lot in common
The problem you've encountered is fairly common.
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Debug Messages from the Windows Kernel Drivers?
I am using DbgPrint and DebugView currently, but it this the official way to observe the drivers behaviour? Does anybody know if and where kernel log files are hidden in the Windows System (like /var/log...
Started by Don Johe on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I don't know if they are slow or fast....
See IoAllocateErrorLogEntry and IoWriteErrorLogEntry.
There is an API for the event log in kernel mode .
The equivalent of /var/log is the Event Log but you can't use it for drivers because that would be too slow .
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Right now, I am creating an msi and a setup.exe using the Visual Studio. It works quite well... till recently.
I recently added a new dialog box with a Combo Box Control to the msi. Now when I install the app directly using the msi, everything is works...
Started by Mostlyharmless on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
In the .MSI itself.
The buttons in the setup wizard were not using the Windows XP / Vista theme style.
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Hi
I want to have something on my site that follows the mouse around sort of like how Windows7 does it.
Like in Windows 7 when something s loading up a little circle comes and follows the mouse.
I am using the Jquery library so I know I can use Ajax Start...
Started by chobo2 on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Thing in Vista but I'm not sure and can't test it because I'm working with XP right now).
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As all already know, the current method to load att low level driver is not compatible with UAC or non admin accounts, so you need to disable UAC if you want to use ATT in Windows x64.
I see many people that want to use uac and att, and because this i...
Started by Cheerpipe on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at guru3d):
By the other way, the method used to force the... .
Another thing, if the service is stoped.
By the other way, the method used to force the driver load is the same as my previous loader, the only diference is the new loader work as a service.
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I originally had Vista installed on my laptop and installed Win7 as a dual boot option. Now I've moved everything from Vista, I have removed the dual boot option via msconfig.exe. Finally, I want to remove the Vista partition (and then extend the Win7...
Started by Andy Whitfield on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
The final problem was extending the Win7 partition to use the newly freed .
Delete the old Vista partition.
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