John i've tried all that on my own system and it didn't work. As soon as the
second drive was plugged in again i got a no operating system found error.
Did a repair and vista put the boot records on the second hard drive.
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"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
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> 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
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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?
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>