I have Vista Business pre-installed with Lenovo restore partition and disks - all of which are in a compressed (proprietary??). I compressed the Vista partition and created several more using gparted livecd and ntfsresize. At this point Vista boot manager was asking for the retail disk in order to do a 'restart repair'. I installed OSX in one partition and Mepis/Linus in an extended partition.
Since there is no 'restart repair' option with the Lenovo software, and I don't have access to a retail disk, I chose to reinstall Vista to the smaller partition, which again allowed me to boot vista. I downloaded EasyBSD and used it to create additional entries for OSX and Linux. These did in fact boot fine - but not Vista (same old 'insert install disk...restart repair').
I then booted linux, went to the Vista partition and copied the backup BCD into /Boot. (Just a wild quess on my part!). I then turned on the boot flag for the Vista partition and rebooted - SUCCESS! Once in Vista, I got the message in EasyBCD 'No valid entries found' and in detailed mode: 'The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid'.
I am currently using grub to multiboot, but would like to clean up Vista's boot files. How do I do that without a retail disk?
If you have read this far - thank you!
Tom
Since there is no 'restart repair' option with the Lenovo software, and I don't have access to a retail disk, I chose to reinstall Vista to the smaller partition, which again allowed me to boot vista. I downloaded EasyBSD and used it to create additional entries for OSX and Linux. These did in fact boot fine - but not Vista (same old 'insert install disk...restart repair').
I then booted linux, went to the Vista partition and copied the backup BCD into /Boot. (Just a wild quess on my part!). I then turned on the boot flag for the Vista partition and rebooted - SUCCESS! Once in Vista, I got the message in EasyBCD 'No valid entries found' and in detailed mode: 'The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid'.
I am currently using grub to multiboot, but would like to clean up Vista's boot files. How do I do that without a retail disk?
If you have read this far - thank you!
Tom