vista boot disk

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Does anyone know how to create one, or if one can actually be created beacuse i'm not too sure!

Thanks Becki x

 

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Becki,

All full retail versions of Vista will be bootable. If you are on about repair tools, then it really depends on what you are trying to repair.

Boyce

 

Well its like when u create a XP boot disc with boot.ini, NTLDR and NTLDETECT

i was wondering whether u can create one like it for vista, as i had to reinstall vista once and it was a nightmare to find the files, and i don't really want to pay for a vista disc, as i didn't get one with my laptop

Becki

 

The laptop should have shipped with instructions on how to make a restore disk.

Harry.

 

thats what i tried to create last time, and i ended up re-installing vista

 

Er - how did you reinstall Vista if you don't have a Vista disk and no restore disk?

On most laptops these days yopu are supposed to make your own restore disks, as almost none ship with any media any longer!

Harry.

 

vista has a copy of the o/s installed on the master boot record, but i want a disk just incase i can't access it, like i had trouble doing the other day, when my colleagues hard drive was unaccessible!

 

Pardon? The MBR is all of 512 bytes!

I sounds to me as if you have a standard separate partition to create and reload Windows.

Double check the docs and try again to create the restore disks.

Harry.

 

i really wanted to create one my self as i am a student and can't afford to buy one!

i think i may have another partition with the files on, but i'm not too sure

thanks for all your help guys!

Becki

 

Is there no documentation on this?

What make and model is it?

Harry.