John Barnes

If you have your first drive as first in boot priority, then when you
installed xp on the second drive the boot files were on the first drive. If
you then formatted the first drive when installing Vista, the XP boot files
would be gone. This would be the case if there were 1 partition per drive.
As the others have said, provide specific information. Which drive is first
in boot priority, what system you want to install on it. How many
partitions and which is active. Same for the second drive. How are you or
have you done any installations to date.

"bmoag" <bmoag@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0F0F14ED-78BF-4E9D-B5FB-215325F3897D@microsoft.com...
> Microsoft is heading for a well-earned disaster with this OS if they do
> not
> fix the dual boot installation problem. What's the chance of this before
> the
> January release date? Win XP has no problem installing on a second hard
> drive
> and getting all the information and location of the boot loader correct
> but
> Vista is a hit or miss fiasco-works for some but not for everybody. I get
> this error and can find no solution that works. I have installed under
> WinXP,
> installed from the DVD, changed the BIOS settings. I examine the Vista
> Boot
> loader in VistaBoot Pro and it seems to point to the correct drive. I run
> the
> repair function from the Vista DVD, it identifies the problem, says it
> fixed
> it but of course it did not. Does anyone no of any clear troubleshooting
> for
> this or is Vista just more Microsoft crippleware?