Installed windows seven, Now can't boot to vista.

torrentg said:

I use Acronis Disk Director Suite. Others, including SIW2 like and use Paragon.

See SIW2 post here:
Clean install with partition

Either will do well for ya. Gparted is a free one though. I never used that but see that it is recommended a lot.

Is explorer.exe started, when looking in task manager? If not, go to file | new task (run) in it and type explorer.exe, hit enter.

No its not, I started it though and it wouln't load my profile only a temp.

But I think I fiured out that it isn't seeing the partitions correctly, it sees the partition it is on as F but it should see it as C, so once I get that figured out I should be good to go!

I am officially back up and running on vista!
I went into the regeditor and changed the drives back to the way vista needs them
Thanks again for all of the help guys!

Good stuff, glad you got it sorted.

Hi,

Torrentg - thanks for stepping in there.

04 - Well done - that's not easy the first time.

I didn't type that out very well - you may find you have an unused entry in bcd - you may have a Vista entry with id {ntldr} from the commands you first attempted from the other thread.

You can see what is there, with the command:

bcdedit

You can remove that entry with:

bcdedit /del {ntldr} /f

Hope it helps.

SIW2 said:

Hi,

Torrentg - thanks for stepping in there.

04 - Well done - that's not easy the first time.

I didn't type that out very well - you may find you have an unused entry in bcd - you may have a Vista entry with id {ntldr} from the commands you first attempted from the other thread.

You can see what is there, with the command:

bcdedit

You can remove that entry with:

bcdedit /del {ntldr} /f

Hope it helps.

Haha Nice! I do have an extra entry but I didn't want to ask again, its like you read my mind

I am kinda glad it got all screwed up though, cause I learned a lot from fixing it.

Thanks again for all of the help, its users like you guys who make this a very nice place to hang around

y dnt u try bcdeditor...i think there is some problem with the vista boot loader settings that might have got overlapped when installing windows 7.so try using the software it can fix up