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Help me boot into Vista :*(

raWill

Junior Member
Allo.

I recently installed Windows Vista Business on a new hard drive (E). I installed Vista from within my current XP x64 (C) installation.

Now when I disable (remove) the XP x64 drive - Vista will not boot (No boot device)
Here is an image of my Disk Manager

The way I would fix something like this is using Fdisk to set the active disk but surely Vista has advanced enough not to have to resort to my trusty copy of Win98SE?

Thanks in advance for any help 🙂

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Here is a copy/paste of my config according to EasyBCD
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
default {e8709fb6-fa5f-11db-be4d-e219ece5282e}
displayorder {e8709fb6-fa5f-11db-be4d-e219ece5282e}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 5

Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {e8709fb6-fa5f-11db-be4d-e219ece5282e}
device partition=E:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
osdevice partition=E:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {e8709fb7-fa5f-11db-be4d-e219ece5282e}
nx OptOut
 
Pop in the Vista install disc and boot off of that. It has a "repair startup" option that should do the trick.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Pop in the Vista install disc and boot off of that. It has a "repair startup" option that should do the trick.

I tried that but when I get into the menu to pick my installation of Vista it's not there - it then asks me to load a driver but from what I've seen Western Digital does not supply drivers for Vista.

Thanks for the suggestions & puppies.
 
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