my dual boot

apparently went ok. I decided to leave the Partition Magic setup and install Vista x86 to the new partition. Vista apparently had no problem with it. . ..however. . .during boot, when the select boot screen loads, my choices are listed as
"Microsoft Windows" "Microsoft Windows" I had to boot and re-boot just to determine which selection was x86 or x64! Surely that could have been better implemented. Is there a way to edit that for less ambiguity?

Domey wrote:

apparently went ok. I decided to leave the Partition Magic setup and install Vista x86 to the new partition. Vista apparently had no problem with it. . .however. . .during boot, when the select boot screen loads, my choices are listed as
"Microsoft Windows" "Microsoft Windows" I had to boot and re-boot just to determine which selection was x86 or x64! Surely that could have been better implemented. Is there a way to edit that for less ambiguity?

Probably. Consult the documentation that came with your boot manager, Partition Magic.
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Thanks, I will do that. But what does the boot screen have to do with Partition Magic?
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Domey ---------------------- "Bruce Chambers" wrote in message

Domey wrote: apparently went ok. I decided to leave the Partition Magic setup and install Vista x86 to the new partition. Vista apparently had no problem with it. . .however. . .during boot, when the select boot screen loads, my choices are listed as
"Microsoft Windows" "Microsoft Windows" I had to boot and re-boot just to determine which selection was x86 or x64! Surely that could have been better implemented. Is there a way to edit that for less ambiguity?

Probably. Consult the documentation that came with your boot manager, Partition Magic.
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You can edit your boot.ini (that's what it used to be) you will find two lines each having the "label" you see on the menu. You can edit or add to this label as you wish.
Actually the lines may be so long that they are compacted over several lines, but you will have the number of lines corresponding to the number of items you see on your boot menu.
Tony. . .
"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message

Domey wrote: apparently went ok. I decided to leave the Partition Magic setup and install Vista x86 to the new partition. Vista apparently had no problem with it. . .however. . .during boot, when the select boot screen loads, my choices are listed as
"Microsoft Windows" "Microsoft Windows" I had to boot and re-boot just to determine which selection was x86 or x64! Surely that could have been better implemented. Is there a way to edit that for less ambiguity?

Probably. Consult the documentation that came with your boot manager, Partition Magic.
--
Bruce Chambers
Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Tony Sperling wrote:

You can edit your boot.ini (that's what it used to be) you will find two lines each having the "label" you see on the menu. You can edit or add to this label as you wish.
Actually the lines may be so long that they are compacted over several lines, but you will have the number of lines corresponding to the number of items you see on your boot menu.
Tony. . .

No, that won't work if Vista is the boot manager, as I believe it is in this case. It doesn't use NTLDR and BOOT.INI. It uses a Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store, instead, and it cannot be edited in a text editor like BOOT.INI could. There is a command-line editing program, BCDEDIT.EXE, included with Vista, which is arcane and to be avoided by all but the most savvy of users. To edit the boot process -- names of the operating systems, specifying the default OS, and setting the wait time before proceeding without input -- get a copy of VistaBootPRO here http://tinyurl.com/fs9ll .
Ron

"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
Domey wrote:
apparently went ok. I decided to leave the Partition Magic setup and install Vista x86 to the new partition. Vista apparently had no problem with it. . .however. . .during boot, when the select boot screen loads, my choices are listed as
"Microsoft Windows" "Microsoft Windows" I had to boot and re-boot just to determine which selection was x86 or x64! Surely that could have been better implemented. Is there a way to edit that for less ambiguity?

Probably. Consult the documentation that came with your boot manager, Partition Magic.
--
Bruce Chambers
Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Ok, I got VistaBootPRO, installed it and ran it, edited the choices to read "Vista x86" and "Vista x64. I closed the program and now i get a bluescreen msg when i boot up.
-- --- domey -------------------- "Ron Miller" wrote in message

Tony Sperling wrote: You can edit your boot.ini (that's what it used to be) you will find two lines each having the "label" you see on the menu. You can edit or add to this label as you wish.
Actually the lines may be so long that they are compacted over several lines, but you will have the number of lines corresponding to the number of items you see on your boot menu.
Tony. . .
No, that won't work if Vista is the boot manager, as I believe it is in this case. It doesn't use NTLDR and BOOT.INI. It uses a Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store, instead, and it cannot be edited in a text editor like BOOT.INI could. There is a command-line editing program, BCDEDIT.EXE, included with Vista, which is arcane and to be avoided by all but the most savvy of users. To edit the boot process -- names of the operating systems, specifying the default OS, and setting the wait time before proceeding without input -- get a copy of VistaBootPRO here http://tinyurl.com/fs9ll .
Ron
"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
Domey wrote:
apparently went ok. I decided to leave the Partition Magic setup and install Vista x86 to the new partition. Vista apparently had no problem with it. . .however. . .during boot, when the select boot screen loads, my choices are listed as
"Microsoft Windows" "Microsoft Windows" I had to boot and re-boot just to determine which selection was x86 or x64! Surely that could have been better implemented. Is there a way to edit that for less ambiguity?

Probably. Consult the documentation that came with your boot manager, Partition Magic.
--
Bruce Chambers
Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:22:00 -0500, "Domey" wrote:

Ok, I got VistaBootPRO, installed it and ran it, edited the choices to read "Vista x86" and "Vista x64. I closed the program and now i get a bluescreen msg when i boot up.

Man, it's difficult to understand how an editing program could do that. It worked nicely for me. I renamed "Older version of Windows" to "Windows XP" without any glitches. I'd contact the authors of VistaBootPRO to ask for an explanation.
I'm inferring from your statements that you have ONLY the two versions of Vista on this machine, right? I think that no matter what you do, Vista setup is going to give you two dual-booting operating systems with the same name. After you reinstall, if that's what you end up doing, there's a command-line editor called "BCDEDIT.EXE" in the Windows folder. You can run it in a command window with the /? to get an idea of what you can do with it -- i.e., you'd type "bcdedit.exe /?" at a DOS prompt to see a [somewhat confusing] explanation of the switches and parameters. You may have better luck with it than you did with VistaBootPRO.
VistaBootPRO and BCDEDIT.EXE are the only two methods I know for changing the names that appear on your dual boot menu. It may be easier to just memorize which version is listed first.