Comments on: Fix a dual boot Windows Vista and Linux problem

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:06:07 +0000

Thanks. I followed the steps and everything works.

By: amir

amir — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 08:18:52 +0000

hi guys i have win vista-after that i install linux centos now when i was in vista i format the drive that linux install on it.now linux boot show up like every time but no option to select black screen of gnu grub of centos show up now i can’t go to vista help me what should i do?
thanks

By: Sami

Sami — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:48:23 +0000

Thank you! This is what I needed

By: dee

dee — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:37:32 +0000

THANKS!!!! help me a lot!

By: matrix

matrix — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:44:00 +0000

that was great. thx a lot…

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:12:22 +0000

This has been of great help to me. Worked perfectly and saved me weeks of misery and tens of attempts ‘successfully’ reinstalling Fedora Linux and having the system boot straight to Windows Vista as if the Linux installation did not happen.

By: Sirajuddin

Sirajuddin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:35:40 +0000

Thanks very much. Its very useful. Can anyone tell me how to get a subscription or login permit to this nixcraft.

By: Joevn

Joevn — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:56:46 +0000

I have install Wins Vista and then Linux Ubuntu, the boot system working fine till, I uninstall Ubuntu, the Vista Boot sector wouldn’t work again. I have tried to put the Visa CD installer to the boot system. However, the system recover denied the access to configuration due to vista require administrator password. But I don’t remember the vista Administrator password, or i don’t think i even set one for it. Could you tell me how to clear Administrator password, please? Or anyone have any suggestion to overcome and fix my vista booting sector. THANKS, Mate

By: afeez

afeez — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:02:33 +0000

hey installed server 2008 them redhat linux. now my system is now booting 2 windows. the linux just doesnt allow for windows 2 boot, as in it doesnt give even give any option for this 2 happen. plz help.

By: Naba

Naba — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:03:52 +0000

the following error message appear when attempting to logon from my Linux desktop….

When I attempt to log in as as user i’m seeing the following error directly after entering the password and username.

“Your session only lasted less that ten seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix the problem”

Checkbox – View Details (~/.xsession-errors file) which when checked dsiplays the following.

/home/user/.Xclients: line 8: /home/user/.Xclients-default: No such file or directory

/home/user/.Xclients: line 8: exec: /home/user/.Xclients-default: cannot execute: No such file or directory

By: JM

JM — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:23:58 +0000

Hi, I think you have to boot with the Vista CD/DVD and use the repair utility. Don’t know on Vista but on XP/2000 the command was FIXMBR. It’s seam that’s Vista as overtaken the mbr whitout asking on my multiboot system, that’s bad.

By: constantine

constantine — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:37:22 +0000

hi i installed vista and then linux fedora8 then i formated the partition that the linux was on how can i fix my boot sector to work on vista again please help

By: Deepak

Deepak — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:03:25 +0000

Your note has saved me so many hassles. Thanks.

By: ahmed barakat

ahmed barakat — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:06:30 +0000

very nice steps, but when I start the rescue, it tells me it failed to mount some parts of my system,
the problem that after changing the root
I find that /dev’ folder has no devices
so grub-install gives error: “can’t find /dev/hda, or it’s not a block device”
Do u have any idea how can I handle that please send to me on my personal mail ahmedbarakat@gmail.com
It’s very important I have a lot of data on my fedora core 6 installation, I don’t want to reinstall it

Best Regards,
Ahmed Barakat

By: peter

peter — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:16:03 +0000

Thankyou-now I can boot linux

By: bhatta

bhatta — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:27:28 +0000

Thanks mate. The solution worked perfect. Even a novice like me could understand and execute. Thanks again

By: John

John — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:35:46 +0000

This was very useful, I fixed my installation in few minutes.

By: kingless

kingless — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:52:45 +0000

thanks a lot :)

By: Wayne Craig

Wayne Craig — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:09:47 +0000

I have installed Windows Vista on a seperat hard drive. Windows XP Home edition was running fine I installed the new hard drive and then installed Windows Vista Home Premium on the new drive. Did not use dual boot at the time of installation. How do I institute Bual boot from here?

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:11:32 +0000

Excellent! Just what I needed!