On Jan 26, 11:39 am, "AJR" <ajr...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
> 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.
>
> <wein...@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>
> news:6458574d-81a5-4724-a498-b112ac920781@xxxxxx
> Quote:
> > 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?
Thanks AJR, however I don't really understand one thing - my system
files and system root are all in the new partition, all I have in the
old partition is roughly 13MB containing the boot folder, of which I
have the same in the new partition. I don't have any other system
files, of in fact other files on the older partition.
I've tried VistaBootPro, but there's nothing I can do there to help me
resolve the problem. All it says is that the boot manager is in the
old partition, and the rest is in the new one.