Hey gents,
I'm not sure whether this is possible or not.
I''ve been playing around already, and crashed my MBR several times... No shame at all!Of course I backed up my stuff first, and know how to fix the MBR back in its original state within a few minutes.
The real question/story:
Is there a way of installing Vista's Boot Configuration Data while only using XP and without having to install Vista. I actually (maybe obviously) don't want to go Vista yet, and want to play around with OSx86 and Linux...
So I prepared nicely an active partition, not too big in size, to hold the boot info, and use other partitions for my operating systems. This works fine for XP, but....
Since I'm centralizing my boot info, it would also be great to use your tool, and the functionality of Vista's bootloader. Create a nice loader you know with the nice gadgets in it etc etc...
Would this be achievable?
I saw a document somewhere, but can't find it anymore, explaining that you first need to copy the files (c:\windows\boot) from a Vista installed machine, to the boot partition and then run easyBCD, but I've been trying this without avail.
It comes up with a message that the BCD file was either missing or corrupt (don't remember the exact error message, but you experts will know where I'm talking about)
Do you guys know the exact procedure for this, and/or tell me if the above is possible to do or not? Of course any advice on this is welcome.
kind regards!
I'm not sure whether this is possible or not.
I''ve been playing around already, and crashed my MBR several times... No shame at all!Of course I backed up my stuff first, and know how to fix the MBR back in its original state within a few minutes.
The real question/story:
Is there a way of installing Vista's Boot Configuration Data while only using XP and without having to install Vista. I actually (maybe obviously) don't want to go Vista yet, and want to play around with OSx86 and Linux...
So I prepared nicely an active partition, not too big in size, to hold the boot info, and use other partitions for my operating systems. This works fine for XP, but....
Since I'm centralizing my boot info, it would also be great to use your tool, and the functionality of Vista's bootloader. Create a nice loader you know with the nice gadgets in it etc etc...
Would this be achievable?
I saw a document somewhere, but can't find it anymore, explaining that you first need to copy the files (c:\windows\boot) from a Vista installed machine, to the boot partition and then run easyBCD, but I've been trying this without avail.
It comes up with a message that the BCD file was either missing or corrupt (don't remember the exact error message, but you experts will know where I'm talking about)
Do you guys know the exact procedure for this, and/or tell me if the above is possible to do or not? Of course any advice on this is welcome.
kind regards!
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