It is a result of the way you installed Vista.
The "default" (for want of a beter title) way of installation is to have
system files and boot files on separate partitions/drive - however they can
be both installed on the same partition which is the majority of "home"
installations
If you delete or remove the "old" drive Vista will not boot - no system
files available.
You may be able to use bcdedit or a third party boot manager such as
VistaBootPro for correction.
<weinnir@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've got a really weird scenario:
> I've installed Vista on one of my partitions, after a few days it got
> corrupted, so i've installed another version on a different partition
> (different disk as well). I've since deleted the first vista
> installation.
> Now vista works perfectly on my other partition, no problems. However,
> when looking at the disk management I can see that the old vista
> partition's status is:" Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)"
> whereas my working vista partition is: "Healthy (Boot, Page File,
> Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)"
> My vista partition is not a system partition. This causes some
> problems, as I can't format the old vista partition.
> Trying to disable the disk at startup and booting with the Vista DVD
> doesn't help (it recognizes some problem but when rebooting, nothing
> happens, no loading of anything).
> Is there a way to assign the 'System' attribute to another partition
> and/or to remove the 'System' attribute from a partition?