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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #45 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:41pm -DUH- Oh Jeez... That was dumb of me. Sorry. Ok... under MBR Details, I have: ---->HD 0 <----- 0) XP and everything else is blank. Do I select XP and Fill and Set to my XP data partition?
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #46 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:45pm You select 1) It is the line below WinXP. It is the second slot in the partition table. WinXP is in the first.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #47 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:46pm Never Mind I figured it out, when I saw Data = Storage? So, I should see: --->HD 0<--- 0) XP 1) MBR Entry 2 (My Extended where I have my image storage)?
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #48 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:47pm Correct. I should have said Extended.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #49 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:55pm Ok... and I suppose now I need the Vista DVD don't I? Which (and this is unbelievable) I won't have until the morning. I swear, I'm not as stupid as I seem. Sorry, but let's finish this tomorrow night, when I have all my media with me.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #50 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:57pm Is there a way to back out what we did so far? I'm at the BOOTMGR is missing screen right now.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #51 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 11:59pm No big deal at all. Just shutdown and continue from the same point tomorrow. If you have the Win7 DVD you could do it now. Choose Win7 from the BING boot menu.
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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #52 - Mar 31^st, 2010 at 12:09am

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

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?

Perfect! I'll ping you back tomorrow. Actually with these last steps, I got it from here. I boot from each DVD, and after the 2 repairs I'm booting from Bing, eh?

Now, I have 2 questions:
1. My XP will still boot, but I will need to reinstall so it sees itself correctly. For that, do I just follow the standard videos, or what (since I have a triple boot)?

2. I saw that my Vista image wouldn't let me Ghost to my XP image because it doesn't actually see that drive. ONce I re-install XP, that should be handled and fine, correct?

Again, thank you for putting up with my dumb @-sign.

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Reply #53 - Mar 31^st, 2010 at 12:11am

Oh Also, Once I complete all these steps, my existing backup images won't be useful? SInce they all have the pre-BING boot and we have introduced BING in a stand-alone partition.

Which is not a problem, since I started with the images I wanted to end up with anyway.

Also, once I re-read our thread, I realize there's no reason to back out any changes at this point, so please disregard that.

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Reply #54 - Mar 31^st, 2010 at 12:33am

WinXP will boot and you could install a new one tomorrow or next year. When you are ready. Can we talk about it later?

Because of unlimited primaries there will be a "problem" with Ghost. You will need to change one MBR partition table.

Let's say you change the Win7 MBR to

Win7
Extended
WinXP
Vista

That will cover all OS from the Ghost in Win7. You will hide the Vista and WinXP OS from Win7.

I forgot, Ghost is in Vista so we'll modify the Vista MBR.

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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #55 - Mar 31^st, 2010 at 12:44am Remember, you must try to boot the OS from BING before you boot from the DVD. Trying to boot from BING makes that partition Active so it is then seen by the DVD.
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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #56 - Mar 31^st, 2010 at 12:57am

Thanks Brian.

Brian wrote on Mar 31^st, 2010 at 12:33am:

WinXP will boot and you could install a new one tomorrow or next year. When you are ready. Can we talk about it later?

Of course! No one can get a glass of water from a fire hydrant, eh?

Brian wrote on Mar 31^st, 2010 at 12:33am:

Let's say you change the Win7 MBR to

Win7
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WinXP
Vista

For the sake of simplicity, I'm fine with running Ghost from Win7.

As far as configuring the Win7 MBR for Ghost, is there an article somewhere I could follow tomorrow and do that?

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Reply #57 - Mar 31^st, 2010 at 1:01am

Brian wrote on Mar 31^st, 2010 at 12:44am:

Remember, you must try to boot the OS from BING before you boot from the DVD. Trying to boot from BING makes that partition Active so it is then seen by the DVD.

THANKS!! I'm glad you thought to let me know about that, cuz you know I'd've slapped the DVD in and tried to boot straight from it.

Brian, you've been great through out this whole darn ordeal. If I'd've known at first what I know now, I swear I'd've come in properly configured to make this far less painful that it has been.

But the big question I got is being sure to have Ghost 15 running in harmony with all this. Again, the Partition I run it from isn't important (XP or 7 or Vista or even from the bootable CD).

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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #58 - Mar 31^st, 2010 at 1:08am Ghost 15 will be fine. You will be able to run it as before to create backups of your 3 OS. If you have to restore an image you will need to make sure that the correct MBR is in use. Not so hard to do.
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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #59 - Mar 31^st, 2010 at 1:13am

bill wrote on Mar 31^st, 2010 at 12:57am:

For the sake of simplicity, I'm fine with running Ghost from Win7.

As far as configuring the Win7 MBR for Ghost, is there an article somewhere I could follow tomorrow and do that?

Ghost 15 is already in Vista. Let's use it from there. Unless you would prefer it in Win7. When we are ready I'll talk you through changing the Vista MBR. It is a 5 second job.

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