Hey
Given that Vista Hide 'n' Seek is in the pre-BETA stage, I wasn't expecting it to work perfectly.
After using it (from my XP [testing] partition), marking C: as Vista and E: as XP (XP is installed on what is assigned as L: from Vista, though) the bootloader showed fine when the PC booted, and the Vista option worked fine, but the XP option gave me load errors (Couldn't find \ntldr). I uninstalled HnS from Vista, rebooted, and alas my XP option in the bootloader is broken, with a similar error.
I tried a number of things from recovery console, but in the end it was just easier to format and go again.
Here is a breakdown of what I did:
- Install XP from disk
- Run this series of commands to add XP to the Vista bootloader, simply because EasyBCD for some reason doesn't play nice. This works fine. Took a backup of bootloader config.
- Installed .NET framework 2.0
- Run HnS, marking E: as XP and C: as Vista (as I said before, to my Vista OS, the XP partition is L
- Reboot. NeoGrub gives me Vista (works), and 'Windows XP [E:]' (doesn't work).
- Uninstall HnS from Vista, restore Vista bootloader and restore config.
- XP no longer boots
Here is the debug info from a working Vista bootloader, where XP boots just fine:
If that's all a bit much, sorry. I know it's in the pre-BETA stages, but I'd really like to get it working! Anyone have any ideas? :??
Given that Vista Hide 'n' Seek is in the pre-BETA stage, I wasn't expecting it to work perfectly.
After using it (from my XP [testing] partition), marking C: as Vista and E: as XP (XP is installed on what is assigned as L: from Vista, though) the bootloader showed fine when the PC booted, and the Vista option worked fine, but the XP option gave me load errors (Couldn't find \ntldr). I uninstalled HnS from Vista, rebooted, and alas my XP option in the bootloader is broken, with a similar error.
I tried a number of things from recovery console, but in the end it was just easier to format and go again.
Here is a breakdown of what I did:
- Install XP from disk
- Run this series of commands to add XP to the Vista bootloader, simply because EasyBCD for some reason doesn't play nice. This works fine. Took a backup of bootloader config.
- Installed .NET framework 2.0
- Run HnS, marking E: as XP and C: as Vista (as I said before, to my Vista OS, the XP partition is L
- Reboot. NeoGrub gives me Vista (works), and 'Windows XP [E:]' (doesn't work).
- Uninstall HnS from Vista, restore Vista bootloader and restore config.
- XP no longer boots
Here is the debug info from a working Vista bootloader, where XP boots just fine:
Code:
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
default {e8709fb6-fa5f-11db-be4d-e219ece5282e}
displayorder {e8709fb6-fa5f-11db-be4d-e219ece5282e}
{466f5a88-0af2-4f76-9038-095b170dc21c}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 5
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {e8709fb6-fa5f-11db-be4d-e219ece5282e}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {e8709fb7-fa5f-11db-be4d-e219ece5282e}
nx OptOut
Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {466f5a88-0af2-4f76-9038-095b170dc21c}
device partition=C:
path \ntldr
description Earlier Version of WindowsIf that's all a bit much, sorry. I know it's in the pre-BETA stages, but I'd really like to get it working! Anyone have any ideas? :??
