Make sure to make the C partition active before trying these steps. In Disk
Management, right click and select mark the partition as active.
"Irv" <Irv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>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
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>> > 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?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>