Tried it four or five times to no avail. It will not take it. It keeps
showing that the Vista installation is on the D:\ Partition of the C:\ drive.
No matter what I do it will not change.
Irv
"John Barnes" wrote:
> 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
> 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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