booting windows dvd

I recently put Vista Beta 2 on my laptop and soon found out that when I tried to boot it up it would get to the part where it should load windows and doesnt seem to find it and just leaves a cursor at the top right part of the screen. However, when the DVD I made is in the drive it boots perfectly. Any suggestions?

Burke--
Mine haven't changed from the first and second threads where you asked the same question. I added screen shots. You can also try to use Easy BCD or Boot Vista Pro 2 or BCDEDIT if it doesn't.
What It Can Do: If you run Win RE's Startup Repair in Vista, it will try to check and repair the following and we're taking about under three minutes usually when it works which is often: (this is not a complete list but a list of major tasks it can perform): Registry Corruptions
Missing/corrupt driver files (you don't have to guess here--it looks at all of them
Missing/corrupt system files (disabled in Beta 2 as is System File Checker but present newer builds)
Incompatible Driver Installation Incompatible OS update installations
Startup Repair may offer a dialogue box to use System restore. How to Use Startup Repair: ***Accessing Windows RE (Repair Environment):*** 1) Insert Media into PC (the DVD you burned) 2) ***You will see on the Vista logo setup screen after lang. options in the lower left corner, a link called "System Recovery Options."*** Screenshot: System Recovery Options (Lower Left Link) http://blogs.itecn.net/photos/liuhui/images/2014/500x375.aspx Screenshot: (Click first option "Startup Repair" http://www.leedesmond.com/images/img_vista02ctp-installSysRecOpt2.bmp 3) Select your OS for repair. 4) Its been my experience that you can see some causes of the crash from theWin RE feature: You'll have a choice there of using: 1) Startup Repair 2) System Restore 3) Complete PC Restore Easy BCD http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/185
and Vista Boot Pro http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/intro.php
Boot Configuration Data Editor Frequently Asked Questions http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/85cd5efe-c349-427c-b035-c2719d4af778.mspx Of course you can define the switches of BCEDIT at the cmd prompt bcdedit /? and then drill into each switch. CH


"Burke" wrote in message

I recently put Vista Beta 2 on my laptop and soon found out that when I tried to boot it up it would get to the part where it should load windows and doesnt seem to find it and just leaves a cursor at the top right part of the screen. However, when the DVD I made is in the drive it boots perfectly. Any suggestions?

What have you tried since you posted 3 threads on the same problem and got sugggestions--how did using Win RE's features go?
CH
"Burke" wrote in message

I recently put Vista Beta 2 on my laptop and soon found out that when I tried to boot it up it would get to the part where it should load windows and doesnt seem to find it and just leaves a cursor at the top right part of the screen. However, when the DVD I made is in the drive it boots perfectly. Any suggestions?

I apologize. everytime I posted a thread it said it did not go through. I also neglected to double check. Sorry.
"CH" wrote:

What have you tried since you posted 3 threads on the same problem and got sugggestions--how did using Win RE's features go?
CH
"Burke" wrote in message I recently put Vista Beta 2 on my laptop and soon found out that when I tried to boot it up it would get to the part where it should load windows and doesnt seem to find it and just leaves a cursor at the top right part of the screen. However, when the DVD I made is in the drive it boots perfectly. Any suggestions?