Vista boot fallback

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After installing Vista Ultimate w/sp1 on my MacPro, the normal start up was
to be presented with the choose the OS screen which included Vista Ultimate
and also Vista Business (recovered).

I have no idea where Vista Business came from, it was a clean install.

My problem is that all of a sudden I don't get the choose the OS screen and
it goes into fall back. It does finally boot and the desktop seems the same.
My RC flight simulator wants me to enter all the serial numbers again, but
everything else seems to work. It still claims to be Vista Ultimate.
When I go to Control panel/System/advanced/Startup and recovery there is
only one choice for the default startup OS. Vista Business (recovered).
I haven't set any restore points (I will next time)

Any Ideas?
Thanks
Bob Beatty
 
I understand that you don't have a real problem other than wanting the OS
choices to reflect reality. If so, use bcdedit to change the name of the
{default} operating system. "Bcdedit /?" for instructions.

Cheers,

Earle

"bigbird007" <bigbird007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4E80A2AD-6403-49DD-B89A-DAC5F9081B94@microsoft.com...
> After installing Vista Ultimate w/sp1 on my MacPro, the normal start up
> was
> to be presented with the choose the OS screen which included Vista
> Ultimate
> and also Vista Business (recovered).
>
> I have no idea where Vista Business came from, it was a clean install.
>
> My problem is that all of a sudden I don't get the choose the OS screen
> and
> it goes into fall back. It does finally boot and the desktop seems the
> same.
> My RC flight simulator wants me to enter all the serial numbers again, but
> everything else seems to work. It still claims to be Vista Ultimate.
> When I go to Control panel/System/advanced/Startup and recovery there is
> only one choice for the default startup OS. Vista Business (recovered).
> I haven't set any restore points (I will next time)
>
> Any Ideas?
> Thanks
> Bob Beatty
 
Or VistaBoot Pro 3.3 which is very simple to use. It also has capabilities
of cleaning up the BCD store.

"Earle Horton" <earlio_nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23k23zl1xIHA.4560@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I understand that you don't have a real problem other than wanting the OS
>choices to reflect reality. If so, use bcdedit to change the name of the
>{default} operating system. "Bcdedit /?" for instructions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Earle
>
> "bigbird007" <bigbird007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4E80A2AD-6403-49DD-B89A-DAC5F9081B94@microsoft.com...
>> After installing Vista Ultimate w/sp1 on my MacPro, the normal start up
>> was
>> to be presented with the choose the OS screen which included Vista
>> Ultimate
>> and also Vista Business (recovered).
>>
>> I have no idea where Vista Business came from, it was a clean install.
>>
>> My problem is that all of a sudden I don't get the choose the OS screen
>> and
>> it goes into fall back. It does finally boot and the desktop seems the
>> same.
>> My RC flight simulator wants me to enter all the serial numbers again,
>> but
>> everything else seems to work. It still claims to be Vista Ultimate.
>> When I go to Control panel/System/advanced/Startup and recovery there is
>> only one choice for the default startup OS. Vista Business (recovered).
>> I haven't set any restore points (I will next time)
>>
>> Any Ideas?
>> Thanks
>> Bob Beatty
>
 
Actually I am a little concerned that I don't get the choice anymore and it
drops into "fallback". Being a mac use and pretty stupid about windows (it's
the games man)

I don't understand:
Why this would happen
Where did Vista business (recovered) come from
What happened to Vista Ultimate. It must still be there as it boots and
claims to "ultimate" when booted.

It's all greek to me...

"Earle Horton" wrote:

> I understand that you don't have a real problem other than wanting the OS
> choices to reflect reality. If so, use bcdedit to change the name of the
> {default} operating system. "Bcdedit /?" for instructions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Earle
>
> "bigbird007" <bigbird007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4E80A2AD-6403-49DD-B89A-DAC5F9081B94@microsoft.com...
> > After installing Vista Ultimate w/sp1 on my MacPro, the normal start up
> > was
> > to be presented with the choose the OS screen which included Vista
> > Ultimate
> > and also Vista Business (recovered).
> >
> > I have no idea where Vista Business came from, it was a clean install.
> >
> > My problem is that all of a sudden I don't get the choose the OS screen
> > and
> > it goes into fall back. It does finally boot and the desktop seems the
> > same.
> > My RC flight simulator wants me to enter all the serial numbers again, but
> > everything else seems to work. It still claims to be Vista Ultimate.
> > When I go to Control panel/System/advanced/Startup and recovery there is
> > only one choice for the default startup OS. Vista Business (recovered).
> > I haven't set any restore points (I will next time)
> >
> > Any Ideas?
> > Thanks
> > Bob Beatty
>
>
 
Have you asked in the Boot Camp discussion group on Apple.com/Support? I
have a MacBook Pro also and have gotten some pretty good advice from the
folks who hang out there.

"bigbird007" <bigbird007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:68DBDBAB-9814-4A88-B96A-CF87F0EEF921@microsoft.com...
> Actually I am a little concerned that I don't get the choice anymore and
> it
> drops into "fallback". Being a mac use and pretty stupid about windows
> (it's
> the games man)
>
> I don't understand:
> Why this would happen
> Where did Vista business (recovered) come from
> What happened to Vista Ultimate. It must still be there as it boots and
> claims to "ultimate" when booted.
>
> It's all greek to me...
>
> "Earle Horton" wrote:
>
>> I understand that you don't have a real problem other than wanting the OS
>> choices to reflect reality. If so, use bcdedit to change the name of the
>> {default} operating system. "Bcdedit /?" for instructions.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Earle
>>
>> "bigbird007" <bigbird007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4E80A2AD-6403-49DD-B89A-DAC5F9081B94@microsoft.com...
>> > After installing Vista Ultimate w/sp1 on my MacPro, the normal start up
>> > was
>> > to be presented with the choose the OS screen which included Vista
>> > Ultimate
>> > and also Vista Business (recovered).
>> >
>> > I have no idea where Vista Business came from, it was a clean install.
>> >
>> > My problem is that all of a sudden I don't get the choose the OS screen
>> > and
>> > it goes into fall back. It does finally boot and the desktop seems the
>> > same.
>> > My RC flight simulator wants me to enter all the serial numbers again,
>> > but
>> > everything else seems to work. It still claims to be Vista Ultimate.
>> > When I go to Control panel/System/advanced/Startup and recovery there
>> > is
>> > only one choice for the default startup OS. Vista Business (recovered).
>> > I haven't set any restore points (I will next time)
>> >
>> > Any Ideas?
>> > Thanks
>> > Bob Beatty
>>
>>
 
Since it really has nothing to do with the Mac I thought this would be a
better place to ask but I'll give it a shot.

Thanks
bigbird

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> Have you asked in the Boot Camp discussion group on Apple.com/Support? I
> have a MacBook Pro also and have gotten some pretty good advice from the
> folks who hang out there.
>
> "bigbird007" <bigbird007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:68DBDBAB-9814-4A88-B96A-CF87F0EEF921@microsoft.com...
> > Actually I am a little concerned that I don't get the choice anymore and
> > it
> > drops into "fallback". Being a mac use and pretty stupid about windows
> > (it's
> > the games man)
> >
> > I don't understand:
> > Why this would happen
> > Where did Vista business (recovered) come from
> > What happened to Vista Ultimate. It must still be there as it boots and
> > claims to "ultimate" when booted.
> >
> > It's all greek to me...
> >
> > "Earle Horton" wrote:
> >
> >> I understand that you don't have a real problem other than wanting the OS
> >> choices to reflect reality. If so, use bcdedit to change the name of the
> >> {default} operating system. "Bcdedit /?" for instructions.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Earle
> >>
> >> "bigbird007" <bigbird007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:4E80A2AD-6403-49DD-B89A-DAC5F9081B94@microsoft.com...
> >> > After installing Vista Ultimate w/sp1 on my MacPro, the normal start up
> >> > was
> >> > to be presented with the choose the OS screen which included Vista
> >> > Ultimate
> >> > and also Vista Business (recovered).
> >> >
> >> > I have no idea where Vista Business came from, it was a clean install.
> >> >
> >> > My problem is that all of a sudden I don't get the choose the OS screen
> >> > and
> >> > it goes into fall back. It does finally boot and the desktop seems the
> >> > same.
> >> > My RC flight simulator wants me to enter all the serial numbers again,
> >> > but
> >> > everything else seems to work. It still claims to be Vista Ultimate.
> >> > When I go to Control panel/System/advanced/Startup and recovery there
> >> > is
> >> > only one choice for the default startup OS. Vista Business (recovered).
> >> > I haven't set any restore points (I will next time)
> >> >
> >> > Any Ideas?
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Bob Beatty
> >>
> >>
>
 
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:38:01 -0700, bigbird007
<bigbird007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Actually I am a little concerned that I don't get the choice anymore and it
>drops into "fallback". Being a mac use and pretty stupid about windows (it's
>the games man)
>
> I don't understand:
>Why this would happen
>Where did Vista business (recovered) come from
The (recovered) BCD item is created when you boot from the Vista DVD,
select Repair your computer, Windows then finds problems with your
computer's startup options, and you choose to repair the problems.

You can use the bootrec /scanos command to see what OS is detected.
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392>
You can use the bootrec /rebuildbcd command to recreate the BCD store.

>What happened to Vista Ultimate. It must still be there as it boots and
>claims to "ultimate" when booted.
>
>It's all greek to me...
>
>"Earle Horton" wrote:
>
>> I understand that you don't have a real problem other than wanting the OS
>> choices to reflect reality. If so, use bcdedit to change the name of the
>> {default} operating system. "Bcdedit /?" for instructions.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Earle
>>
>> "bigbird007" <bigbird007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4E80A2AD-6403-49DD-B89A-DAC5F9081B94@microsoft.com...
>> > After installing Vista Ultimate w/sp1 on my MacPro, the normal start up
>> > was
>> > to be presented with the choose the OS screen which included Vista
>> > Ultimate
>> > and also Vista Business (recovered).
>> >
>> > I have no idea where Vista Business came from, it was a clean install.
>> >
>> > My problem is that all of a sudden I don't get the choose the OS screen
>> > and
>> > it goes into fall back. It does finally boot and the desktop seems the
>> > same.
>> > My RC flight simulator wants me to enter all the serial numbers again, but
>> > everything else seems to work. It still claims to be Vista Ultimate.
>> > When I go to Control panel/System/advanced/Startup and recovery there is
>> > only one choice for the default startup OS. Vista Business (recovered).
>> > I haven't set any restore points (I will next time)
>> >
>> > Any Ideas?
>> > Thanks
>> > Bob Beatty
>>
>>
 
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