[NTxC]

Hello to all!
I'm new here.
I bought Windows Vista Ultimate yesterday.
I installed it today, but it can't boot.

I have one HD, Western Digital Caviar 200GB. I have two partitions - C:, where XP Pro resides, and D:, where I wanted to install Vista. I run the Vista Setup, then I choose "Clean installation" as the method of installation, I choose drive D:, etc. and it started to install. After installing it rebooted. When I try to boot Vista it complains about a missing or corrupt \Windows\system32\winload.exe, error 0xc000000f (or sometimes 0xc000000e).

What the problem is? Please help if you can.

Cheers!

EDIT: I want to have dual-boot so I can choose XP or Vista to run from list at the computer startup.

Edited by NTxC, 20 June 2007 - 09:17 AM.

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take a look at this thread: http://forums.techgu...st-xp-home.html
specifically post #2.

This will allow you to check your boot manager to verify if it is configured properly.

From what I have been reading, there are issues with dual booting xp and vista. Please post your results so we can what else may need to be done.

[starjax]

take a look at this thread: http://forums.techgu...st-xp-home.html
specifically post #2.

This will allow you to check your boot manager to verify if it is configured properly.

From what I have been reading, there are issues with dual booting xp and vista. Please post your results so we can what else may need to be done.

[NTxC]

Hi Starjax
'Device' and 'osdevice' settings under 'Windows Boot Loader' part are set as they are supposed to be.

BCDEdit results:

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {ntldr}
device unknown
path \ntldr
description Earlier Version of Windows

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {default}
device partition=D:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=D:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {6726b3f1-1f91-11dc-ab69-ae0b82821ccb}
nx OptIn
detecthal Yes

Do you recommend installing a third-party bootmanager? Which do you recommend?

[gumby701]

Mmm, but this isn't:

identifier {ntldr}
device unknown

I don't remember what to do about that...at least you didnt delete winload.exe like me, out of frustration.

[NTxC]

The unknown parameter is in Legacy OS Loader (section which loads XP). XP is working properly, but Vista shows dumb 0xc000000f (of 0e) error. Looks like I wasted my money on Vista.

[starjax]

well this is what I would do if I wanted to run dual boot:

install vista on the primary © drive. install xp on a secondary hard drive (d).

Point I'm making is that everyone who I saw having this issue tried putting vista on a different drive than c. That seems to be the common thread.

those that had it installed on c either were using a beta version or a cracked copy of vista.

This was culled from doing searching via google.


Another option is to consider running an os in a virtual environment using Microsoft virtual pc: http://www.microsoft...pc/default.mspx

I personally bit the bullet and got Vista Ultimate 64bit version. I haven't run into any compatability issues with any of the software and games that I play.

[gumby701]

mmm try changing

path \Windows\system32\winload.exe

to

path \Windows\system32\boot\winload.exe

[gumby701]

Really, that's what worked for me...until my HDD decided to die on the next reboot....but that was a cause of the problem, most likely. I dont think changing the BCD will hurt your HDD.