The BIOS passes control to the MBR (in an MBR system) which locates the
proper volume boot record (active partition) to find the boot files. BCD
for Vista ntldr for NT systems.
"Irv" <Irv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>>
>> --
>> John Barnett MVP
>> Associate Expert
>> Windows - Shell/User
>>
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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?
>> >
>>
>>