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I cannot get rid of vista entries on boot up
Gary Mount gary_mo...@telus.net microsoft public windows vista general In my bios, there are two sections. One lists the various ide drives and the second lists the boot up drives. In order to have a drive show up as one of the options to boot from I have to manage the list of drives in the first list.

Strange vista problems...
It would be like altering your framebuffer boot splash screen, which until relatively recently required a kernel patch on linux, thus if screwed it up, your system won't function. 4+ years is "relatively recently" for you? good to know. (Pity him.) Pitty you that you don't understand what it is you think you do.

Vista on 2nd harddrive
When I launch it from within Vista, I first get an error message that " there is no vista installed, or it is on a hidden partition". When you have the legacy entry set up via VBP using your default boot process, which you said was Vista, you can set the legacy drive letter to C or you can copy the three files

Vista installation fails on first boot-up
P Mar...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Thanks Colin/Its Personal, This this is really really p&#^*g me off. Restarted PC safemode & safemode commant prompt, & once again rebooted with Vista DVD - it failed (more on this below) When you boot up with dvd >choose

Problem booting up laptop running Vista when overseas
Booting up takes 3 times as long then with XP and shut down which really doesn't matter is also much longer, not big things I know but running apps is also much much slower, I've tweaked Vista everyway I know and researched and it's just a slow OS. Very disappointing, if I had to compare it to something I would say

vista safe mode
I have two instances of Vista listed in my boot sequence even though I dont have vista installed anymore. This is what I have listed on boot 1. Vista >>>>>>>> this is a failed install and boots to a fault page, I want to get rid of it 2. Vista>>>>>>>>> again a faulty install, I want to get rid of this too 3. xp pro

After add in 1 gig memory Vista boot up slow and black screen.
John Barnes jbar...@email.net microsoft public windows vista general It may be too late with your numerous attempts, but 'last known good' works best for these safe mode windows. i was wondering how to get rid of this and get it back to normal. regards, luke When you are booting up hit "F8" on your keyboard.

boot up problem with vista desktop
tiger29 tige...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general i have just gone back into my bios and the only time i see my dvd burner drive is in the standard but when i go into advance section where the boot up order is can only see my cd burner one, so yea im stuck still.

Vista not booting up
Mary M...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general You have to boot to your dvd drive since the Vista disk is a dvd. "Willie" wrote: I wanted to know if anyone else has this happen.When I boot up my pc everything is fine until after the microsoft meter.There's no activity for about 2 mins

Vista Boot up Time
This was a returned item and there were no instructions and no disc for Vista Ultimate (should there be one?). My problem is that the computer won't boot up. When you turn it on there is a long period with a black screen and a flashing cursor. Then you get the error message:"The computer restarted unexpectedly or

Setting up Vista Ultimate 64 bit do dual boot with XP Pro 32 bit
If by third party boot manager which totally hides the Vista system, you can protect the restore points, otherwise no. VistaBootPro works with the Vista Boot Manager, does not have its own. http://www.vistabootpro.org/index-about. php "Don" <burnet...@clotheshotmail.com> wrote in message

vista safe mode
Sinister Midget fardblos...@gmail.com comp os linux advocacy On 2008-02-21, Jim Richardson <warl...@eskimo.com> claimed: Moshe (or maybe amicus, I don't bother tracking those trolls too closely) assured us that Vista could fix itself, that such problems were inventions of the Linux folks to make MS look bad.

Vista not booting up
Cooljay Cool...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Hi Shawn, Thanks for the advice. But that still does not slove the problem of not being able to using Vista. I think right now my more critical problem is that I am not able to boot up my PC using Vista be it booting from DVD or from

Vista won't boot up
Jud Hendrix n...@none.com microsoft public windows 64bit general On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:12:21 -0600, "Don" <burnet...@clotheshotmail.com> wrote: You might want to check out this article on APC Magazine: http://www.apcmag.com/dualboot jud.

Volume, Network and Power Icons and Booting up with Vista
Adrian Brown adr...@apbcomputerservices.co.uk microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Ive had a strange problem happen twice now. The PC's lock up when trying to access programs etc. Vista takes ages too boot up etc. Has anyone else had this problem, anyone got any ideas on how to start to resolve the

0x0000007e - after a reboot then 0x0000008e - Arrgh
I find that when booting up, I can almost go for coffee waiting for it to complete. The Windows Experience Index shows 3.1. Are there parts of Vista that I can completely disable such as Tablet PC and some other parts which I could disable to try and speed it up. I am almost inclined to uninstall Vista and go back

Problem with Vista & multiple wireless network ports
John Barnes jbar...@email.net microsoft public windows 64bit general If by third party boot manager which totally hides the Vista system, you can protect the restore points, otherwise no. VistaBootPro works with the Vista Boot Manager, does not have its own. http://www.vistabootpro.org/index-about.php "Don"

System restarting itself during booting up Vista DVD
The Boot Drive does not contain any operating system. Thus the operating system image does not contain Vista Boot files. Once the image has been created, I will use My Computer and go into the root folder of the Drive C: and delete all the hidden files for booting up the computer. Now, since I won't be able to

Windows Vista at One Year (Dark Side Report)
For some strange reason the PC boots up in the middle of the night. Around 12AM to be exact. This has happened twice. There have been nights when I have used the PC past 12AM, so I am not sure if the auto booting could be a nightly issue. I am not sure what is causing this issue. I make sure that the machine shuts

installing vista error
T5 noans...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general I have two instances of Vista listed in my boot sequence even though I dont have vista installed anymore. This is what I have listed on boot 1. Vista >>>>>>>> this is a failed install and boots to a fault page, I want to get rid of it 2.