As it happens we are 'not' speaking of overly large sigs, we are talking
about restore points!


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"Nonny" wrote in message
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"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

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Speaking of overly-large sigs!!!

I'm glad you managed to solve the problem. As I said gaining access to
system restore points from the recovery console is not for the faint
hearted.

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"Ruwiten7" wrote in message
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Thanks again for the responses. I was finally able to get into Safe Mode
and
perform a restore and all is fine now. Have a good Holiday...

"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

There is a way of accessing system restore points, but this needs to be
done
using the recovery console, so hopefully you have a full copy of XP? I
must
stress, though, it is not something for the faint hearted.

For more details see this link:

http://searchwincomputing.techtarget...167895,00.html


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"Ruwiten7" wrote in message
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As I stated in the first post, I still see my old boot menu. XP loads
up
until the "Starting Windows" screen and hangs. Any ideas?

"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

So if the problem started this morning what exactly are you
experiencing?
You switch on the computer and it loads the boot menu. You then select
XP
from the boot menu and then what happens? If XP doesn't appear on the
boot
menu then it is a bootloader issue.

Any error messages?


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"Ruwiten7" wrote in message
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I've actually had both OS's installed for quite some time, I just
wanted
to
do a full migration to Vista today. I've been able to boot into XP
(Default)
up until this AM, so it's not a bootloader issue. I just haven't
explored
Vista indepth. The rationale for the complete migration is I'm
called
apon
to
support some features of Vista and the best way, as it sounds like
you
know,
to learn a proggy or OS is just to dive in and start using it. So,
I'm
"Vista
Challenged" but wanted to start changing that today. I can still see
my
"C"
Drive from Vista and can move some data via that method, but would
really
like to boot into XP to perform some Exports that I'm about two
weeks
behind
for. Basically all I need to know is if there is a method to use the
XP
System Restore, or a viable alternative, from within Vista to see if
that
will cure my ills.
Thanks for the prompt reply and I sincerely hope you have a solution
for
me
Ruwiten7

"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

Let me get this straight, you still have your copy of XP on another
partition on your hard drive? If this is the case, when you
installed
Vista
Windows Vista overwrote the XP bootloader. XP is still there, its
just
that,
at the moment, you can't see it. Use VistaBootPro (Manage OS
Entries
Tab)
to
add XP to the bootloader menu and then you should be able to boot
into
either XP or Vista.


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"Ruwiten7" wrote in message
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Thanks for being here to assist, and I hope this is the correct
group.
I've
been running XP Pro for quie some time and recently installed
Vista
using
Partition Magic and have also installed Vista BootPro. I planned
a
full
migration of all of my data from XP today but cannot boot into XP
for
some
reason. I was going to export or save vital data from XP, so this
is
quite
a
bummer. I cannot enter Safe Mode nor use Last Known Good Config
options
for
XP. My box makes it up to the "Starting Windows" screen and hangs
there.
After exporting the data I require from XP and saving to disk I
was
going
to
manually install all of my progs into Vista (Quite a plan for the
4th,
huh?)
Is there a method to utilize an XP Restore Point from Vista to
enable
me
to
boot into XP?
Thanks in advance for any assistance you may provide!
Ruwiten7