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01-28-2008, 10:38 AM

Christoph Egger

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Re: Vista & Linux

Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
> Christoph Egger wrote:
>> Vista seems to have trouble booting on a Machine with an damaged
>> NTFS-Partition (damaged mine by shrinking the partition via gparted,
>> low level formating helps here).
>
> I had a similar problem. It appears that Vista is highly sensitive to
> being moved off the disk that it was originally installed to, and is
> also at least moderately sensitive to having its partition structure
> changed.
>
> The solution is to 'generalise' the Vista bootloader so that it will
> work on any disk or partition and will not look to see if it is original
> or not. This essentially makes it behave much like XP in this regard.
> The only real use of Microsoft's decision to place these kind of checks
> in the boot process is merely to discourage casual copying, as far as I
> can determine. As no one in their right mind would counterfeit Vista in
> this fashion, it merely serves as an incredible annoyance to genuine users.
>
> If you need help 'generalise' your Vista bootloader then
> http://www.multibooters.co.uk/cloning.html provides an excellent guide
> to doing so; I certainly wouldn't resize a Vista partition unless it had
> been generalised, you will probably get an immediate blue screen on boot
> (like I did) that will only go away once you've generalised the loader.
> It's very easy to do from within the installation of Vista you are
> planning on resizing/moving, but it's a pain (but I found it achievable)
> to do after it's been copied and not booting.
>

Thank ou for this Information. After all I resized the Vista partition
with it's own Partition Manager (Yes that's possible) and now have
enough space for Debian and an dual-booting Notebook so I won't change
anything by now (it works!)

Christoph

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