Hard for me to believe that there is not a way to tell windows that the boot
records is not on the correct drive. Surely you could go into the Registry
and make a change???
Irv
PS..I am running the latest available Bios
"John Barnett MVP" wrote:
> The boot records have been placed on your second hard drive. I had a similar
> problem (but not with SATA) I have two hard drives, on drive 0 i dual boot
> XP and Vista, on drive 1 i have a backup partition and other backup images.
>
> While XP and Vista dual boot on drive 0 everything is fine. However, i
> reformatted drive 0 and installed Vista on its own. Vista, in its infinite
> wisdom, created a 10GB partition on my second hard drive (drive 1) and
> installed all the boot records. When i dual booted with XP and Vista all
> boot records were stored on the XP partition on drive 0.
>
> I believe it is a BIOS problem so check to see if your BIOS had an update
> (mine doesn't, even though the machine is only 2 years old). If there is no
> BIOS update then the only option is to stay as you are with the boot records
> on your second hard drive. Although you should only have a 10GB partition
> for these files, the rest of the drive should be okay for formatting.
>
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> "Irv" <Irv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0E7A5D5C-5096-46BB-AD55-3724A3DBC1E4@microsoft.com...
> >I installed C:\Vista and D:\WinXP as a dual boot setup using two SATA
> >drives
> > and EasyBCD 1.52. Everything was fine and I continued to use them both
> > until
> > I felt everything was stable. I decided it was time to remove the training
> > wheels (XP dual boot) using EasyBCD 1.52. I rebooted and everything was
> > fine.
> > Now I wanted to format D:\. Right clicking on the drive and selected
> > Format
> > it would not allow me to do it. I then proceeded to delete everything on
> > the
> > drive. I can delete everything, but Boot and Bootmgr. It tells me that
> > they
> > are in use. To prove this I unplugged the D:\ drive and the system would
> > not
> > boot.
> > This is what is showing in EasyBCD:
> > http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k180/irvdk/Boot.jpg
> > Can someone tell me what is wrong and how to fix it?
> >
>
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