I am trying to get Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit to dual boot, but am having issues.
I have a homebuilt computer with an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard and an Opteron 185 processor. I have 4 harddrives in the machine. 2 are in a Raid with Windows XP on it and of the 2 that are left 1 is a 500 GB SATA drive and the other is a 120 GB IDE drive.
Under XP everything works fine.
I decided to try for a dual boot set up so I could test out Vista and see if I would be disappointed with the processing power of my computer or not (was Vista a pig on my computer or not?)
I decided to install it on the 500 GB drive and leave XP on the RAID0 set up.
The installation went fine and I logged in for the 1st time. I noticed that I could not get the native resolution of 1440 x 900 in the generic monitor control panel, so I downloaded and updated the drivers to the latest 64 bit drivers from NVidia.
Upon reboot the system hangs at the device listing of the POST. It seems that it is looking for a drive to boot from.
In the BIOS, if I set the primary boot drive to the XP RAID drive it boots directly into XP. If I set the 500 GB drive to be the 1st HDD to boot from it hangs.
I have run the Startup Recovery part of the Install DVD, and it says there is no problems. I did get back into the Vista side and got to play a bit after booting from the DVD, but if I take out the DVD it hangs on the List devoces screen of the POST.
I downloaded VistaBootPRO and ran it under the XP side and got many errors:
"VistaBootPRO has detected that your BCD registry is either missing or corrupt. It is recommended that you fix this problem in order to suppress this message on further uses."
I get 4 of these popups, then one about there being no backup for the BCD Registry.
What is wrong and how can I fix it?
Thanks,
-P
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