Q: My Vista won‘t boot, what should I do? ( 4672 views)     2/23/2007 8:18:47 PM | Posted By: Admin My Vista won‘t boot, what should I do? A:  Having trouble booting vista? Dual boot causing chaos? Vista now has a new tool dedicated to fixing issues such as these. If you happen to doing a dual boot with Xp and Vista, and you happen to install XP after Vista the result is Vista not booting. This happens primarily because XP has overwritten Vista‘s boot loader which is widely different from the old XP one. When vista is initially installed it installs its won boot loader on the first 512kb of the primary drive. This boot loader also detects legacy operating systems such as XP or Windows 98, but they must have been installed prior to installing Vista. This tool is located on your Vista product DVD. To use it, insert the DVD, restart your machine, and choose View System Recovery Options (Advanced) from the menu. You‘ll need the username and password for an account on your machine. Then, select Startup Repair from the list of recovery tools, and hopefully things will fix themselves. However it must be noted that this tool is not a fix all miracle, if you have badly messed up your boot loader by using third party tools or another method it may not be recoverable. In which case a reinstallation/upgrade is required of the entire operating system or a systemrestore of your computer from a CompletePC Backup system snapshot if you have Vista Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition.