Installing Vista on a cluster other than 4k

[NickL]

Ωραίος Nigol. Μάλλον δεν βαριέσαι να ψάχνεις στο googol ε?

Πιο πολύ μου πήρε να γράψω το ποστ παρά να βρω πως το κάνουν.

Ούτως ή άλλως έτσι το χα κάνει από όταν πρωτοπήρα τους ssd οπότε το θυμόμουν.

[GeorgeVasil]

Λοιπόν ο Johnys αντιμετώπισε ένα πρόβλημα με το την διαδικασία Backup Acronis με Image που είχε πάρει με 2πλο παρτιτιον (με τον τρόπο που περιγράφει το πρώτο ποστ)..

Το πρόβλημα ήταν ότι μετά το Restore..τα Drive Letters μπηκαν όπως να'ναι (δεν γίνεται πάντα) και κατά το Boot των Win κολλούσε στο Σημείο "preparing desktop" .

Αν σε εκεινο το σημειο πατησουμε Ctrl+Alt+Del τα Windows ξεκινανε με χαμενο το Profile τους..και με περιορισμένες δυνατότητες.

Παρατηρούμε οτι τα Drive Letters ειναι όπως να ειναι για αυτό δεν έχουμε κανονικό Boot.

Mια λύση ειναι να χρησιμοποιήσουμε το EasyBCD ή καλύτερα να αλλάξουμε τα Drive Letters Manualy.

Αυτο γινεται ως εξης:

Same thing happened to me when I made a clone of my vista system drive and removed the original to try and boot from the clone. The problem lies with the way vista deals with the connected drives. Rather than re-assigning letters when booting up each time as some older windows versions did, vista stores an identification numbr unique to each drive in the registry, so if you remove a drive and put it back in it will receive the same letter.

Anyway, determined not to be beaten, I tried many things and heres a way that works:

(I'll include simple instructions first for changing a system driveletter then at the end ill post what I did to copy a vista installation to another drive for anyone who's interested)

Changing the Vista system drive letter

(should fix the problem many of u folks are having)

1. On a diferent computer that boots properly with internet, download small program called registry workshop (30day free trial), install it and burn the installation directory to a CD (or floppy if it fits). (Γίνεται και πολύ απλά τρέχοντας Regedit απο τον Task Manager.)

2. Boot up the "broken" vista installation in safe mode (need administrator account)

3. When it reaches the desktop (start menu and icons missing) bring up task manager and click file > new task > type "%Windir%\explorer.exe" (this should allow you to access start menu, etc.

4. Navigate to the CD with registry workshop and run it off the CD

5. Follow this path through the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\MountedDevices

6. There should be a value there with the drive letter that vista is installed on currently. Change the name of the registry key from "\DosDevices\[currentdrive]:" to "\DosDevices\[Original Drive Letter]:". You may have to delete "\DosDevices\[Original drive letter]: if it already exists.

7. Reboot the system and all should be as you left it!

Copying an Installation of Vista

1. Download a vista compatible drive cloning program such as driveclone (available as full 30 day trial)

2. Download Registry Workshop (also 30day full trial) and install, then copy the install directry onto a cd/removable disk (maybe not required)

3. Make the Clone your vista hard disk onto another one

4. Turn of compuetr and disconnect the source hard disk

5. Boot up again (with first boot device set to cd drive) with vista dvd in drive

6. When it has loaded, choose the repair option, this should detect a problem with vista's boot location and repair it to allow you to boot from the new hard disk.

7. When you boot the computer from this hard disk (do so in safe mode - we need the administrator account), it should get stuck on the screen you folks mentioned above (no start menu, etc)

8. Bring up task manager and click file > new task > type "%Windir%\explorer.exe" (this should allow you to access start menu, etc.

9. There are a couple of registry files to delete but regedit will not currently open, so this is where registry workshop comes in. Unlike regedit this program will still work.

10. In registry workshop, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > MountedDevices

11. look for keys named "\DosDevices\c:" There should be one there with the same letter on the end as your original vista installation was on. There should also be one corresponding to the vista installation you're currently running. Copy the value from the one your running to the original key, and delete the key that you're currently running.

12. Reboot and everything should be back to normal, you can reconnect the other drives

and now both vista installations should work (i havent actually tested that last statement)

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