I have run across this issue a few times now.
All IDE drives and secondary SATA drives should be disconnected when you
install Vista. This way ALL of the necessary code is installed in the
desired drive/partition.
After a successful boot into Vista, shut down and reconnect your other
drives.
NOTE: If you try to do a full system restore the same applies. I have had to
save the full system restore to another partition on the system drive to get
around this.
TrueImage HOME 10.0 (latest version please) negates the above. You can
restore with all drives connected.
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi Dan,
>
> It seems to be a an issue with Vista that if IDE drives are installed, it
> buggers with writing the bootstrap code to SATA drives. You may want to
> check and see if Vista setup wrote the bootloader to one of them instead.
> It would explain why running fixmbr/fixboot on the SATA drive didn't do
> anything.
>
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> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Dan" <none@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:Omr1bghKHHA.320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> Are there any IDE drives connected? Also, I'd try it without the 2nd
>>> SATA drive attached (just unplug the two cables while it's shut down).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best of Luck,
>>>
>>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> Funny you should ask! Yes, there are 2 ide drives, however they are
>> storage only (no os's) so I didn't think they'd matter. I wondered about
>> disconnecting the other SATA as well, thanks for the tip.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>>
>>> "Dan" <none@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:4aOdnXZjC6OJkw7YnZ2dnUVZ_vWtnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>>> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:uTIIDmgKHHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Use VistaBootPRO: http://www.vistabootpro.org/
>>>>>
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>>>>> Carey Frisch
>>>>> Microsoft MVP
>>>>> Windows Shell/User
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>>>>> news://msnews.microsoft.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, I'll give it a try. Still wonder why the boot fixes didn't
>>>> take.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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