There is a misunderstanding here,
Your C: drive is the Boot drive,
It would not Boot if the system files were on another partition.
Your D: drive is not a valid operating system.
Delete it .
Create a new partition for all your extra program files.
Jerry
<hinnc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I had an issue with one of my disk drives this past weekend and ended
> up re-installing Vista. My system has two drives; one that I use as
> the system drive and the other is used for data backup. Well the re-
> install went fairly well but when I tried to do a complete image
> backup my data drive today, the one that has the drive letter D:
> assigned to it, it was not listed as a valid backup device. Further
> investigation revealed that somehow the D: drive which contains only
> data and not the operating system is the system partition. The C:
> drive where all of Vista's files reside is the boot partition.
> Normally, on non-dual boot systems the boot and system partitions
> reside on the same physical partition, (and the same physical disk
> drive). The D: drive was unavailable to use as an image backup drive
> because it has the system information on it.
>
> My question: is there a way to make the C: drive the system partition
> withput a complete reinstallation? I looked all over the web and at
> BCDEdit.exe, DiskPart.exe, and BootEdit.exe and none of those appear
> to be a fix. Anyone have any ideas? Other than that it all works
> fine.
>
> More info below:
>
> DISKPART> list volume
>
> Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status
> Info
> ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- ---------
> --------
> Volume 0 I Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 1 E Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 2 G Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 3 C NTFS Partition 295 GB Healthy
> Boot <-----------------
> Volume 4 K Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 5 D NTFS Partition 298 GB Healthy
> System <--------------
> Volume 6 J Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 7 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
> Volume 8 H Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 9 L Removable 0 B No Media
>
>
> C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit
>
> Windows Boot Manager
> --------------------
> identifier {bootmgr}
> device partition=D:
> <--------------------------------------------
> description Windows Boot Manager
> locale en-US
> inherit {globalsettings}
> default {current}
> resumeobject {01d9d5d0-9003-11dc-9e1b-f05eb17f0115}
> displayorder {current}
> toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
> timeout 30
>
> Windows Boot Loader
> -------------------
> identifier {current}
> device partition=C:
> <--------------------------------------------
> path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
> description Microsoft Windows Vista
> locale en-US
> inherit {bootloadersettings}
> osdevice partition=C:
> systemroot \Windows
> resumeobject {01d9d5d0-9003-11dc-9e1b-f05eb17f0115}
> nx OptIn
>