I tried disconnecting the XP drive altogether, booting from Vista CD, and
trying a repair but it flagged up no errors.
Rebooting caused the system to once again scream for its bootmgr, until I
powered off, replugged the XP drive and restarted.
Extreme case: if I disconnected all but the Vista drive and did a complete
reinstall etc., would I still be able to "activate" Vista again, after I had
already done so on the first install? You know what M'soft are like! ;-)
(Running Ultimate 64 version, by the way)
Paul
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"mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com> wrote in message
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sounds like the XP disk is the primary BOOT disk for the system and the
vista boot manager resides there as well as the xp boot manager.
if you format the xp disk wiping out the vista boot manger you will then
have to REPAIR the vista install to restore the vista boot manger.
not a big deal, jut be aware that is what will happen.
how about swapping the 2 drives and then doing a repair on the vista drive
to make it the boot drive.
mikeyhsd@sport.rr.commikeyhsd@sport.rr.com
"Paul Graham" <paulgraham@pobox.com> wrote in message
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Running Vista 64 - clean install on formatted HD.
One of the other HDs (I have three) had XP Pro installed.
Now I can't reformat the XP Pro HD, as Vista refuses to delete the main
system folders. If i unplug the XP HD before boot up, I get an error message
saying that BootMgr is missing. The same thing happens if I fail to keep the
Vista CD in the drive whilst booting up. Arrrgh!
I did have a problem with the Vista Boot Manager appearing, asking which
version of Windows I wanted to run (I dont want a multiboot system - I left
XP on "just in case" things went wrong with the Vista install), but I've
managed to get that changed so,
supposedly, it only recognises that Vista is the only OS. (I used a program
called VistaBoot).
Any suggestions for this? Thanks
Paul
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