kenney001
August 17th, 2007, 04:46 PM
I have a problem. I was playing around with vista, and installed Ubuntu linux on a 3rd HD from by desktop. I then removed the D and formatted it for use on another PC. Now That i know now was a terribly stupid thing to do.
So now im stuk between a rock and a hard place. I tried to boot into XP on my desktop and it says GRUB loading stage 1.5 (the linux bootloader) and it gies me an error 22 (i researched and it means the files could not be foud). So i try to boot into vista (note i did not have bootloader before, I used the bios boot menu) and i get the same thing. So i stuck in my xp disc, did a recovery, and it did nothing. I stuck in my 98 boot flopy and typed fdisk /mdr and it successfuly fixed my XP boot. Now when i tried to boot into vista it gave me Ntldr is missing. This one was obvious, so i stuck in my vista cd and did a startup recovery. It fixed the ntldr issue, but now when i try to boot onto my 2nd sata drive (the vista one) it goes through bios screen, and it gets to the screen right before it does the green loading scrolls for vista, it reboots. The only way i can get into vista is use the startup recovery disk, run startup recovery, and let it reboot into vista. This process takes about 15 minutes, and when i try to boot normally into vista it just reboots.
Anyone know how to fix this, or reload the vista boot entries? It really aggrivates me! I have tried vistaboot pro, but it uses the bootloader, which i do not want.
So now im stuk between a rock and a hard place. I tried to boot into XP on my desktop and it says GRUB loading stage 1.5 (the linux bootloader) and it gies me an error 22 (i researched and it means the files could not be foud). So i try to boot into vista (note i did not have bootloader before, I used the bios boot menu) and i get the same thing. So i stuck in my xp disc, did a recovery, and it did nothing. I stuck in my 98 boot flopy and typed fdisk /mdr and it successfuly fixed my XP boot. Now when i tried to boot into vista it gave me Ntldr is missing. This one was obvious, so i stuck in my vista cd and did a startup recovery. It fixed the ntldr issue, but now when i try to boot onto my 2nd sata drive (the vista one) it goes through bios screen, and it gets to the screen right before it does the green loading scrolls for vista, it reboots. The only way i can get into vista is use the startup recovery disk, run startup recovery, and let it reboot into vista. This process takes about 15 minutes, and when i try to boot normally into vista it just reboots.
Anyone know how to fix this, or reload the vista boot entries? It really aggrivates me! I have tried vistaboot pro, but it uses the bootloader, which i do not want.