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The How-To Geek Forums Have Migrated to Discourse How-To Geek Forums / Windows Vista SOLUTION to "Disk Read Error" when dual booting vista and xp (Vista 1st) (2 posts) Started 8 years ago by jdaman5 Latest reply from michael
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Topic Viewed 6348 times jdaman5 Posts: 4 This post has been reported. Hi all, I'm fix mbr vista without cd new to the site. Thought i'd share my experience trying to perform a dual install with Vista and XP. (What a nightmare!) I have recently windows xp fixboot had problems installing XP with Vista install but am happy to inform all of you that i may have a solution to the "Disk Read Error occurred, press ctrl-alt-del to continue" error. Note that you need a Vista installation cd https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/927817 to do this. When you receive said error, throw your Vista cd into your computer and boot off it. When the install screen pops up, in the bottom left hand corner there is an option that says "Repair my Computer". Click it and it will take you to a box which prompts you to select your HDD. When you have done that a few options will appear in the box. Select the first option "Startup Repair" and it will do a http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/solution-to-disk-read-error-when-dual-booting-vista-and-xp-xp-1st scan then ask you to restart. If you select “Click here for diagnostic and repair detailsâ€? it will tell you that a corrupt boot loader was found and fixed. Restart and hopefully you problem will be solved but in my case it wasn't. Instead the previous "disk read" error was replaced with "Error loading Operating system" I trawled the Microsoft knowledge base and goggled like a madman until I found someone with the same problem. This person said that deleting the XP installation and replacing it with Vista would solve the problem. So i booted up the Vista cd, formatted the XP installation and installed Vista on the same partition. This enabled my computer to boot up successfully with all of my files untouched =D. Well I hope this solves some problems relating to dual booting with Vista and XP. Reports: · Posted 8 years ago Top michael Posts: 568 This post has been reported. Thanks jdaman! I've been looking for a solution. :D -- Mike Reports: · Posted 8 years ago Top Topic Closed This topic has been closed to new replies. ABOUT About Us Contact Us Discussion Forum Advertising Privacy Policy GET ARTICLES BY EMAIL Enter your email address to get our daily newsletter. FOLLOW US Twitter Facebook Google+ RSS Feed Disclaimer: Most of the pages on the internet include affiliate links, including some on this site. Copyright © 2006-2016 How-To Geek, LLC All Rights Reserved
and Vista What is the MBR? MBR stands for Master Boot Record and it’s the first sector of your hard drive that basically tells the BIOS where to look for the operating http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/fix-mbr-xp-vista/ system on your computer. If, for any reason, the MBR becomes damaged or http://www.istartedsomething.com/20060622/installing-and-uninstall-vista-beta-2-for-dual-boot-with-xp/ corrupt, then the operating system will be unable to load. You will normally see error messages like: Error loading operating system Missing operating system Invalid partition table These messages are definitely not fun, especially if you are not familiar with computers. Most people would automatically assume their computers are dead! However, that’s not true. Being dual boot in IT myself, these errors are actually preferably to other types of Windows errors. Why? Well, it’s actually fairly easy to fix the Master Boot Record in XP and Vista. All you have to do is load up the Recovery Console and run a simple command. All of your data, applications, settings, etc are still intact on the drive and once the MBR is fixed, the computer will load dual boot repair normally. So how can you repair your damaged MBR? Here are the steps to follow: 1. First, restart your computer with the Windows XP setup disk in the CD drive. If you don’t have your original disk, borrow one or download a ISO image from a torrent site. 2. When prompted, boot from the CD drive by pressing any key. If Windows loads automatically, you will first have to enter the BIOS setup and change the order of the boot devices to start with the CD drive. 3. Once the setup loads, you will see the option to press R to repair a Windows installation. 4. Once the Recovery Console loads up, you will have to type in a number that corresponds to your Windows installation. This is normally just 1. Press Enter and then type in the Administrator password. 5. Now at the prompt, type in fixmbr. Your damaged MBR will now be replaced with a new master boot record and your computer should now be able to boot properly. Note that you may also want to run the fixboot command to repair the boot sector with a new one. Also, make sure you only use these commands on a system with o
whilst maintaining the best compatibility with your existing operating system to either continuing using, or to assist in the migration to the new OS. Microsoft has made it relatively easy to dual-boot Windows Vista with your existing XP installation. Here's a quick guide outlining the basic steps you need to undertake to get to a working Vista desktop environment. Installation Most people have only one hard drive, and sometimes you're limited to only one drive on a notebook for example. This causes problems if you want to install two operating systems on the same drive. Vista offers you the choice to upgrade your existing XP installation, but this would mean you would lose the ability to restore your XP to its previous state if necessary, this poses many compatibility problems and you suffer the risk of losing crucial data. The solution is to create a new partition. Previously, creating partitions were only possible when you had just formatted your drive, but now many software solutions are able to ‘split' partitions in to several new partitions whilst keeping your existing files. There are many different softwares that achieve this, I personally recommend Acronis Disk Director Suite. There is also Norton PartitionMagic, which I found more complicated to use. First you need to split your existing partition. You should allocate at least 10GB of space to your new partition, as Vista requires approximately 6-7GB depending on your configuration. Commit these actions. After a few subsequent restarts, you should end up with 2 drives appearing in ‘My Computer'. Now you can start installing Vista. For those of you with a DVD, it's quite straight forward. If you have an ISO image of the Vista DVD I recommend to use a virtual drive software to emulate the DVD image, this is much faster than reading from a DVD, and more reliable. For virtual drive emulation, I recommend Daemon Tools. From Daemon Tools, mount the Vista DVD image and proceed to installation. In the install, make sure you select Custom (advanced). And then select the newly created partition, ensure it is a "Logical" drive. And then proceed with install. It is fairly straight-forward from here. After about 40 minutes, you should be in the desktop of Windows Vista. Next time you boot up the computer, you'll be presented with a selection menu. Here you can choose to boot to either Vista or XP. By default, it boots to Vista after 30 seconds of inactivity, selecting "Earlier version of Windows" will boot to XP. Unins