[Boot menu problems.]

I don't see why it would have, but anyways...

Re-install is the best bet then?

[Vista Query?]

If you are a student and your department of study is a subscriber to the MSDNAA (MSDN Academic Alliance) then they can download it for you and provide you with a key completely legally. That's how I got my copy.

[Installing Programs on Vista]

Alcohol 120% didn't work for me. had some registration errors.

[installing SATA on VISTA?]

my NForce SATA drives are recognised fine. I can't imagine SATA support being a problem if you have it built into your motherboard. If your SATA is provided by a PCI card or suchlike, then I'd check with your manufacturer.

[Boot menu problems.]

Hi there.

Before I installed Vista this morning I had 2 operating systems, using the XP boot menu, XP Professional and Fedora Core 3. After installing Vista, I wanted to carry on using this menu, so following instructions I found on the internet, I booted to the recovery console and ran fixmbr, fixboot etc.

My boot.ini now looks like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
c:\fedora.mbr="Fedora Core 3 64 bit"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista beta 1" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT

However when I select the Windows Vista option, all I get is a black screen and nothing happens (as though there is no bootable information)

The relevant hard drives are partitioned as follows:

Disk 0:

NTFS Windows C: 76,322MB

Unallocated space 7.8MB

Disk 1:

Unallocated space 7.8MB

Extended Partition: 78,152MB

- NTFS My Documents F: 30,718MB

- EXT3 Fedora L: 32,130MB

- NTFS Vista M: 13,311MB

- SWAP Linux Swap 1,992MB

Thanks for your help in advance,

Mitch

PS. I have tried Vista with and without the /USENEWMENU switch