2011-01-08, 08:03 AM
I actually had to learn how to dump the Boot Loader of Vista, no easy task mind you which required almost destroying a perfectly good Windows Vista partition using BCDEdit, which is NOT friendly to use even on Windows 7, and then later on after installing Windows XP, using a recovery Vista DVD to reload the Vista Boot Loader using BCDEdit again.
Seriously, even as an IT administrator, I dread using BCDEdit for disk management. It's not a user friendly tool and documentation on it, even the official Microsoft stuff can be daunting at times to use. You actually can seriously destroy a partition and make disks unrecoverable if you screw up with this tool.
It's not something I'd advise to start out with. I recommended the safer method only for this exact reason.
Think I'm kidding? Read this web page on TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...10%29.aspx
Seriously, even as an IT administrator, I dread using BCDEdit for disk management. It's not a user friendly tool and documentation on it, even the official Microsoft stuff can be daunting at times to use. You actually can seriously destroy a partition and make disks unrecoverable if you screw up with this tool.
It's not something I'd advise to start out with. I recommended the safer method only for this exact reason.
Think I'm kidding? Read this web page on TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...10%29.aspx