problem dualboot vista and 7 winload.exe error

[Milite777]

First of all sorry for my bad english (i'm italian) but on any italian forum no one can help me.
I have installed on a second partition of my first hard disk seven (in a first partition I have vista). The first start of 7 goes well and I can see the desktop without any problem. Then I restart my pc to change the boot priority and set the hard disk as default. Then I restart again and I see the vista boot manager that ask me to select the os to start. When I select 7 I get an error that say:

FILE \windows\system32\winload.exe

Status: 0xc0000428

info: windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file.

(I think that is the english version of my error, the code match)

I try to repair the windows starup with the wizard on 7's dvd but it doesn't work. I unistall, reburn, reinstall 7 but the result was the same.
If I open (when I running vista) the property of winload in 7's directory I see that the digital signature of the item doesn't match (a screen of property in italian: http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5007/catturahw.jpg)

Please help me in a basilar english, thx a lot in advance

 

[Dave76]

FILE \windows\system32\winload.exe

Status: 0xc0000428

Welcome to Seven Forums.

What graphics card are you using?
Do you have on board graphics?
Take the graphics card out if you can.
You might try getting the latest graphics card driver and loading it during the install.

Another option might be to check for the latest BIOS update.

What speed are you burning the DVD at?
What program are you using?

Try installing with a USB Memory key, min 4GB. You can find a good tutorial here.
USB Windows 7 Installation Key Drive - Create

Run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor found in this tutorial How to Use Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

It might find something.

Let us know your progress.

 

[wallyinnc]

Ciao Milite, benvenuto (that is all my Grandma taught me...)
Pls try what Dave instructed, and also check if your ISO file is OK (I believe you downloaded it) before putting it in the USB drive. MD5 checksum is a good program to check the file's MD5 code
Also, try to format your partition and do a clean install, rather than repairing it.
Let us know!

 

[Milite777]

Ciao Milite, benvenuto (that is all my Grandma taught me...)

great!!
Thanks to all for your answer. I answer to you in order:

I have a Ati Radeon Express 1250.
What do you mean for on board graphics?
I prefer try another solution first and take out the graphic card only if is very needful
I try it but I don't have any difference.
I think I have the last bios version
I burn at 4x speed with nero 9 on a dvd rw
I can use an external hard disk? I have only a 2 gb memory key.
I run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor (I can't save the report), it say that I have only 768 mb di ram (vista say 1 gb) and that I have 5 program that I should reinstall after I update to seven.
I check md5 and it's ok.
I already format the partition and do a clean install, but I have always the same result
Also I find this on this forum (http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/29015-dual-boot-windows-7-vista-boot-error-winload-exe.html) can it help you?

 

[wallyinnc]

Milite, I am checking with SIW for the solution he had in that case.
There are a couple of problems I see though:
1G RAM is the minimum for 32 bit version, you need more for 64bit (which one are you trying?)
I have never tried with a DVD RW, but that might be a potential problem. Do you have a read only DVD you can burn?
Finally, you can unpack the ISO to the external drive and run setup.exe on that.
By the way, remoning your graphics card might be the simple solution here. Does your motherboard have on-board graphics? Do you have a VGA connector from the motherboard or only from the card?
Let us know

 

[Milite777]

1G RAM is the minimum for 32 bit version, you need more for 64bit (which one are you trying?)

32 bit

And if I want to try to install from external drive, how I can launch the installation? If I unpack the iso, how I can launch the setup file from boot? I should use the tutorial posted from Dave76?

We'll talk after of the graphics card as a last hypothesis

 

[SIW2]

Hi Milite,

Post a screenshot of Vista Disk management window - then we will fix this in a few seconds.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-how-post-screenshot-seven-forums.html

 

[Milite777]

I think you need this screen:



it's the right window?

c is the vista partition, f is the 7 partition, d is the dvd driver, e is a external hard disk that I open (because I have some alimentation problem) and I adapted to be a internal hard disk

 

[SIW2]

In Vista, open an elevated command prompt, Type( or copy and paste these if you like).

cd /d f:\windows\system32

then press enter

bcdboot f:\windows /s c:

then press enter.

Close command prompt.

Restart the pc.

 

[Milite777]

In Vista, open an elevated command prompt, Type( or copy and paste these if you like).

cd /d f:\windows\system32

then press enter

bcdboot f:\windows /s c:

then press enter.

Close command prompt.

Restart the pc.

:shock: it... woooorks!!! thanks!!! thanks a lot!

1 little (and off topic) question: how I can thank you and the other for your fantastic help? there is a button on this forum? I can't see it

 

[wallyinnc]

This explains it: http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/4192-donate-button-7.html#post294860
Milite, if you want to stay and help others, that is good retribution. And in the process you will learn a lot and have fun. Personal experience.

 

[Milite777]

This explains it: http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/4192-donate-button-7.html#post294860
Milite, if you want to stay and help others, that is good retribution. And in the process you will learn a lot and have fun. Personal experience.

thanks, I will try to do this. But now I have another problem: now when I boot from the primary hard disk, the boot always stop to "verifying DMI Pool data..........." and I can only shutdown from the bottom on pc case. When I boot from dvd drive it start without any problem. And now? I don't think that is a seven problem because yesterday and today I use it and I haven't any problem. What do you advise to me?

EDIT: sorry I find the solution, the bios was configured wrong and it boot from second hard disk (why this? I don't touch it)

 

[saadsalman]

In Vista, open an elevated command prompt, Type( or copy and paste these if you like).

cd /d f:\windows\system32

then press enter

bcdboot f:\windows /s c:

then press enter.

Close command prompt.

Restart the pc.

Hi! I am having the same issue with me but a bit different scenario.. I was using Ubuntu 9.04 and Windwos 7 (64-bit) but then needed to have an older version of Windows. I installed vista (32-bit) on the spare partition I had, then reinstalled grub, and then copied the Boot directory from vista partition (C to windows 7 partition (D along with bootmgr and exported the BCD file too from vista. Now when I run Windows 7 I get the error "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file" (and the file is windload.exe in system32 folder).

I tried what you said in the quoted post but got this error:
"This version of d:\Windows\System32\bcdboot.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."

Can you please guide how to solve this issue?

 

[SIW2]

Extract bcdboot.exe file from this zip this and copy it into in Vista Windows\System32

View attachment bcdboot.zip

open an elevated command type:

bcdboot d:\windows /s c:

press enter.

Hope it helps.

 

[saadsalman]

Extract bcdboot.exe file from this zip this and copy it into in Vista Windows\System32

View attachment 71574

open an elevated command type:

bcdboot d:\windows /s c:

press enter.

Hope it helps.

It worked! Thank you for taking out time to upload the file!

 

[SIW2]

You're welcome.

Glad it worked for you.

 

[HappyBoot]

Solved Boot winload.exe signature problem

About same action to solve Win 7 and Vista dual Boot problem.
Vista was already installed, then I install successfuly cold Win7 on another H: Disk.
Then somedays after I dont know how, I got Boot signature error when booting Win7, no problem booting Vista.

The BootMgr was on c: Vista disk

I tried the Win7 rescue disk to restore BCD, dont work.
I remove the C: Vista disk.
Then restart with Win7 rescue DVD and restore BCD.
After this action a was able to Boot only Win7

Then attach C: Vista Disk
While on Win7

I renamed BootMgr of C:Vista to zzBootMgr
Then I used EasyBCD 1.7 (free program) to install the second Vista entry to BootMgr on H:Win7.
Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies
Then delete C: zzBootmgr and Boot files
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Then all was correct.

Thanks

 

[Dave76]

Glad to hear you got it all sorted out.

EasyBCD is a great program.