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Weyland-Yutani · Mar 20, 2008 , 12:03 PM

HI,

after installing Vista on a Boot Camp partition, every time I start Vista I have to spend a minute watching it in DOS mode (big blocky white characters on black background) telling me it is detecting my other partitions as non-NTFS and their header is all wrong.. after telling me this for each partition once or twice Vista finally loads.

This didn't happen when I had XP on a Boot Camp partition, is there any way to tell Vista to stop this nonsense and just boot from the partition allocated to it?

MacosNerd · Mar 20, 2008 , 12:33 PM

the macosnerd corporation does not feel this is a bug or a problem but rather an undocumented feature with windows and that any whining that is occurring seems to be with the users who are unhappy with said feature

seanc · Mar 20, 2008 , 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by Weyland-Yutani

HI,

after installing Vista on a Boot Camp partition, every time I start Vista I have to spend a minute watching it in DOS mode (big blocky white characters on black background) telling me it is detecting my other partitions as non-NTFS and their header is all wrong.. after telling me this for each partition once or twice Vista finally loads.

This didn't happen when I had XP on a Boot Camp partition, is there any way to tell Vista to stop this nonsense and just boot from the partition allocated to it?

Strange, I've never come across that before, even with Linux drives installed. Are you using a legal unmodified version of Vista or something else?

Originally Posted by MacosNerd

the macosnerd corporation does not feel this is a bug or a problem but rather an undocumented feature with windows and that any whining that is occurring seems to be with the users who are unhappy with said feature

Do you have something against Weyland because I don't quite see the point of this?

morphineseason · Mar 20, 2008 , 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by Weyland-Yutani

HI,

after installing Vista on a Boot Camp partition, every time I start Vista I have to spend a minute watching it in DOS mode (big blocky white characters on black background) telling me it is detecting my other partitions as non-NTFS and their header is all wrong.. after telling me this for each partition once or twice Vista finally loads.

This didn't happen when I had XP on a Boot Camp partition, is there any way to tell Vista to stop this nonsense and just boot from the partition allocated to it?

Download easyBCD from Download EasyBCD 1.7.1 - NeoSmart Technologies and recreate the MBR (master boot record). I can't remember the exact steps I had to take to do that, but perhaps a google search would get that for you. I know you can also change a number somewhere within that program to cut down on the load time. I don't have Vista anymore otherwise I'd figure it out. Hope that helps a little bit.

ghporter · Mar 20, 2008 , 03:59 PM

Something in the boot table is goobered-but nothing that affects OS X. While the "EasyBCD" software may fix the MBR for you, so will tools that come with Vista. Check out Microsoft's page on Vista recovery options. These are out of my experience, so I can't advise on them beyond what MS says about them. I think THIS option is the more likely bet for getting your MBR gooberage un-goobered.

Weyland-Yutani · Mar 21, 2008 , 02:54 AM

Thanks guys, I'll try the things you suggested.

seanc: I'm using a genuine Vista Ultimate edition, straight from the MS corporate monster :=)

As ghporter mentions, this doesn't affect OS X at all, and doesn't affect Vista in any other way than the aforementioned whining. It has always booted and runs fine.

mr. burns · 12:22 AM

i have this same problem after installing 64-bit vista ultimate. i'll get those warnings when it's starting up, but everything works fine after that. not a big deal but a little annoying.

trying to repair the installation by starting off the windows disc didn't work either.