Ok, I had Vista RC1 isntalled on my secondary hard drive, with XP on my C
drive. Dual booting. I decided to go with RC1 as my main OS, so I swapped the
drives, to make Vista on C and XP on D, and when I formatted the old C drive,
i totally forgot like an idiot that the MBR was on that drive, so now i have
a Missing boot device...



any Vista tools out there that will let me put boot files on the Vista drive
without having to reformat and reinstall?

i just sugest you reformt the drive.
"g0nk" <g0nk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, I had Vista RC1 isntalled on my secondary hard drive, with XP on my C
> drive. Dual booting. I decided to go with RC1 as my main OS, so I swapped
> the
> drives, to make Vista on C and XP on D, and when I formatted the old C
> drive,
> i totally forgot like an idiot that the MBR was on that drive, so now i
> have
> a Missing boot device...
>
> any Vista tools out there that will let me put boot files on the Vista
> drive
> without having to reformat and reinstall?

> Ok, I had Vista RC1 isntalled on my secondary hard drive, with XP on
> my C drive. Dual booting. I decided to go with RC1 as my main OS, so I
> swapped the drives, to make Vista on C and XP on D, and when I
> formatted the old C drive, i totally forgot like an idiot that the MBR
> was on that drive, so now i have a Missing boot device...
>
> any Vista tools out there that will let me put boot files on the Vista
> drive without having to reformat and reinstall?
>

You can try a boot from the DVD and select repair from the DVD.

ko van Zeeland