Go into your BIOS and change the boot order to have the Vista drive first in
boot priority (after the DVD player). You may have to do this in two
places, one to put the HD in the proper boot order and another to place the
Vista drive at the top of the HD priority.
Then insert the Vista DVD and start the install until you get to the place
where you have the repair options. Do a repair start or startup or whatever
it's called and you will be okay. Prior versions in test required as many
as 3 tries before it worked, so don't give up if the first and second tries
fail. Do the startup repair, reboot and you should be okay to format the
other drive.
"Irv" <Irv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>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?
>