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Automating installation of multiple windows variants
I posted this on stackoverflow but was told that this is a more appropriate forum for this kind of question.
I have a situation where I need to test some stuff (hardware) on multiple operating ...
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Heavy disk usage at Vista boot
This is what happened:
I attached an external hard disk via USB
Started my Vista machine
It took an unusual long time too boot up with lots of hard disk work
I eventually logged in
Internal system ...
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Unable to boot into Windows Vista, gets into grub prompt
I have the following scenario:
I had a dual boot option on my laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium and Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition 5.0. In order to install Ubuntu on the partition having RHEL, ...
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Custom launch mechanism (e.g F10) on Vista
I'm setting up a deployment system for our devices to set them up before we ship to customers.
I have three partitions, first is OS partition, second is Vistas recovery WinRE, third is a linux ...
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Problem booting Vista after moving to a larger drive
I am trying to move a 32-bit Vista installation onto a larger hard disk. I tried to do this using my normal method:
Boot the system into an Ubuntu Live CD
Backup the MBR using: dd if=/dev/sda of=/...
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Access "advanced boot options" in Vista when using multiboot
Using MDT and WDS for deployment I setup a Vista system where I have 3 partitions. One partition is the OS, one is a factory recovery partition with winRE on it and the last is a linux system with a ...
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How do i unlock a volume in Vista
I am trying to fix a computer but when I try to delete and recopy some files it tells me the volume is locked?
The problem stems from "ntoskrnl.exe is corrupted" error so I'm trying to put a new one ...
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CHKDSK hangs on Vista boot while verifying indexes
I recently dual-booted under Vista x64 and Ubuntu 9.04. Instead of using Vista to re-partition before installing Ubuntu, I just let the Ubuntu installer re-partition the drive.
Now when I boot into ...
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How do I get a detailed vista bootlog?
How can I get a detailed report of what/when things are getting loaded during vista boot?
The basic reports found in the event viewer are @ too high of a level. Someone must've needed more ...
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Access Windows Boot Manager selector when timeout is set to 0?
I've installed Wubi onto a Windows Vista computer. I've also set the boot timeout to 0:
bcdedit /timeout 0
However, now I can't figure out how to get the menu to come up at all! I read on the ...
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Need Vista x64 boot disk to access hard drive & external drive
I am evaluating drivesnapshot (www.drivesnapshot.de) for backing up and restoring disk images for Vista PCs. I have drivesnapshot backups working on 2 Vista PCs, but on the x64 PC, I cannot get a boot ...
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How can I add an existing OS install to the Windows Vista boot manager?
I had Windows Server 2003 installed on my primary hard drive. I then added a new hard drive and formatted/installed Windows Vista on the new hard drive. The old drive with Windows Server 2003 is still ...
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