I thought I might not have been clear enough to you so I did this to help.
Have have tried doing that, but then it does not see the windows Vista
installation and wants to reinstall.
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../CompMgrmt.jpg
Thanks for taking the time to help me.
Irv
"John Barnes" wrote:
> Try unplugging the non Vista drive and do your startup repair. Leave the
> drive unplugged until you boot, or at least try a couple more times. Let us
> know any error messages you get when you try to reboot after the repair
> completes if it doesn't boot. (you can always plug it back in if it still
> continues to fail)
>
> "Irv" <Irv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news
C4AE54B-9667-4861-AC01-C0D08664B3A0@microsoft.com...
> > 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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