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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #30 - Mar 29^th, 2010 at 8:35pm

Dan Goodell wrote on Mar 29^th, 2010 at 3:31am:

Did you mean Boot Manager, or Boot Magic? ... snip ... If you're referring to Boot Magic, that's not a utility I can recommend.

Sorry, I do that sometimes, I meant BootMagic.

Once I'm set, - and since I prolly won't have bandwidth for this rebuild project until the weekend - should I renew this thread or what?

I'll have the testbox, BING and be ready to first break the two Vista/Win7, then recreate XP.

How should I proceed?

Rad wrote on Mar 29^th, 2010 at 1:47pm:

You have Brian & Dan helping. Lucky you.

No Sh...enanigans there, my friend

And you should have heard me this morning layout a lessons learned case and why this particular solution is warranted.

I owe that level of competent and authoritative discourse directly to them and this forum.

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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #31 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 4:25am

Bill,

BING needs to be installed into a FAT partition. You don't have one and you already have 4 primary partitions. In BING you can unlimit primaries and have more than 4 primary partitions on the HD. But you can only have a maximum of 4 primary partitions in the MBR at any time. So each Boot Item will have a different partition table in the MBR. I use this feature.

So boot from the BING CD, click Cancel on the "Welcome to setup...", click OK on the Notice ("You are now entering...")
Click Partition Work and select your Data partition. Click Resize and make the New Size 8 MB less than the present value. OK. Click Close. Select the Extended partition. Click Resize and for the Free Space Inside (End), make it 0. You will now have 8 MB Outside. OK. The dashes in the 8 MB row should not be indented. (your data partition is indented). Close. Click Reboot. BING will soon be installed into this 8 MB of Free Space.

Leave the CD in the tray. This time click..
OK
Yes (BootIt can support..)
Yes (you can either...)
Yes (It's recommended...)
OK (Setup has...)
Yes (....was not created...)
OK
Close
OK and remove the CD

When BING boots on its own, click Maintenance, then Boot Edit. Delete each item in the Boot Menu. There should be three. OK. Alt + 0 to power off.

Let me know when you have reached this stage.

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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #32 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 10:27pm

Brian wrote on Mar 30^th, 2010 at 4:25am:

When BING boots on its own, click Maintenance, then Boot Edit. Delete each item in the Boot Menu. There should be three.

Hi Brian -

I followed each step, and am at Boot Menu - DEFAULT.MNU and there was only 1 boot item listed Win7. I deleted it.

Is it ok to continue from this, or should I reboot?

Everything else up to that point matched your previous post precisely.

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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #33 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 10:55pm Bill, sounds good. Standby.
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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #34 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:10pm

Click OK on your empty Boot Menu -DEFAULT.MNU

Click Settings and put a tick in

Full Partition List
Use volume Label
Leave the rest alone
OK

Click Partition Work
Select each of your 4 partitions in turn (ignore the BING partition) and click Properties. In the name field, give it a meaningful name. eg WinXP

Click boot Edit
click Add
click the Drop down arrow and choose WinXP. In the Identity field type WinXP (or your choice). Choose an icon. In MBR Details (on the right), select 1). click Fill and choose your Data partition. OK. OK.

Repeat this procedure for Vista and Win7. Each MBR will only have two entries. The OS and your Data partition.

When completed, click Resume. Select Vista and click Boot. It will fail to boot with a BOOTMGR is missing error. Boot to the Vista DVD and do two repairs. On the second boot you will get to the Startup Repair choice on a big menu. Vista should then boot from the BING menu.

Restart and choose Win7 from the BING menu and repeat the above process with a Win7 DVD.

Now all OS should boot but we may have to cleanup the WinXP secondary boot menu.

Success? Questions?

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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #35 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:13pm Well - when I tried Alt-O, it didn't power it off, it just notified me that I hadn't saved my changes, so I clicked Yes. I'm at Boot Menu and I have Add, Help Delete, etc. but no Settings. Should I CTRL-ALT-DEL and reboot?
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #36 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:14pm Scratch that last post. I'm at the settings menu now.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #37 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:16pm It is Alt-zero Yes, try CTRL-ALT-DEL and reboot. Click Maintenance when you see the empty Boot Menu.
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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #38 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:19pm

Brian wrote on Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:10pm:

Click boot Edit
click Add
click the Drop down arrow and choose WinXP. In the Identity field type WinXP (or your choice). Choose an icon. In MBR Details (on the right), select 1).click Fill and choose your Data partition. OK. OK.

On the Properties window, I have the Name set, but the button is for BCD Edit.

When I click that, I'm in a BCD Edit windows with Items = Win7, Vista, XP.

If I click I add, I have options that look like Recovery options.

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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #39 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:25pm You are on the wrong window. The Name field is at the top of the Properties window from Partition Work. Type in this field. OK?
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #40 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:25pm Click Partition Work Select each of your 4 partitions in turn (ignore the BING partition) and click Properties. In the name field, give it a meaningful name. eg WinXP
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #41 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:32pm Hey, ok... at the Work with Partitions window, each partition is named. However, I never did encounter the Boot Edit you mentioned - maybe because of Win7 and EasyBCD being installed (That button was on the Properties window, under Additional Information).
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #42 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:34pm Here's what I got: XP Partition 33001MB HPFS/NTFS Vista (same but for size) Win7 (same but for size) MBR Entry 2 (same but Extended) Storage (Indented HPFS/NTFS) BOOTIT EMBR So I think they auto-configured?
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #43 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:34pm Boot Edit is beneath Settings on the BING desktop.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #44 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:38pm OK. Where I referred to your DATA partition, use Storage. Looks good.
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