Solved Vista 64bit not boots

I am on the vista 64bit ultimate from 2008, on a sata hard drive.
When i remove or unplug the another hard drive what is ata the computer will not boot, it says: >Reboot the computer and selected proper boot device or instert media<
I dont want to use that ata hard drive just the sata on what is the vista ultimate 64bit.
Please a little help is needed to fix this problem.

You should check in the BIOS and set your SATA drive thats got your vista on it, as first boot.

That might help.

However, as i don't know how you setup your initial vista install, you ma have a bad boot record.

hey Patonb i was selected in the bios the sata drive but not booting so.. also i inserted the vista cd but on the repair is like vista not seeing the hard drives, when is the ata hdd disabled or unpluged

I was installed the Vista Ultimate 64bit back in 2008 to the Seagate 500GB hdd that is the C: drive.
The D : drive is the Hitachi 80GB ide hdd, on what was a 32bit os before.
But now i dont want to use that ide drive and want to remove from my computer, and when i unplug the cable or removing it from the computer thn the os wouldnt booting up. When i put it back thn boots okay.

Acronis is showing that the C: drive the Seagate 500GB on what is Vista Ultimate 64bit the OS is (Active,Boot).
But showing the D : drive too that (Active,System) the Ide Hitachi 80GB drive but i wasnt installed the 64bit Vista to that drive, on that was before a 32 bit vista.

I think thats your issue... System, I believe, has your boot record, so when youre booting, I gets messed up. You'll have to repair your mbr, but i'm foggy on vista repairing, but you'll need your dvd.

Is your dvd ide as well? or sata?

Heres MS howto fix mbr in vista
How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows

the dvd is sata dvd liteon

But why is the System on the D : drive look the picture, i was installing on the C: drive not on the D: .

I'm not an expert on this, but D: had the old 32bit vista initially, So when you stuck 64bit on, it kept the old drive as main, including the boot record there.

So while youre in x64, C is the main, and D is the 32bit. BUT while in 32bit, you'd have seen the x64 part as D.

you should be able to fix the mbr to change from D to your new C using the recovery.

That would be good, i will try to fix it. I will tell later if i know or nope. But thanks for the help.

Hello zon.





You have to go to disk management and right click the OS partition that you want to keep and click "Mark as active ... " then you will need to do as many as 3 separate startup repairs with system re-starts in between the repairs to write the boot files back to that OS partition.


How to Do a Startup Repair in Vista

Hello Patonb, Bare Foot Kid,
Thank you for helping me out with that problem.
I was solved it, and disabled the ide hdd in the bios, and formated 2x to be sure that nothing is on that hdd, thn enabled it. Now i need to remove it from the computer.
The OS boots now perfect. Thanks in advance.
Cheers

Hello again, glad you got it sorted, thanks for the update.

Anytime, enjoy.

Big Up , Bare Foot Kid & Patonb

I was removed today that ide hdd, all good now the computer boots perfect.

Cheers

Gald to know mate, cheers!