Vista Boot Manager HELP por favor - please

[JonathanJace]

this is gonna be tought to explain:

Ok, i have/had 5 hard drives, c: (ide/gone) e: f: (sata) g: h: (eide) , vista was installed on f: which in vista was seen as j:

after about 1 year, my c: started failing (boot manager was on that drive) so i decided, i never liked my main drive being j: and the drive is failing, i'll start fresh and install vista again.

e: drive had the most space so that was the target. i removed the cables from the c: drive and proceeded to install my fresh vista install on the e: drive.

the e: drive, now c: drive in vista is running great. the only problem is that my boot manager files are on drive g:

i dont want that. drive g: and h: are "guest" drives and whenever they are gone i cant boot into my OS.

I've tried EasyBCD, VistaBootPro, hell even the Vista CD but to no avail.

How do i move my boot mgr files to my e: now c: drive?

any advice would be appreciated.

Have a happy new years all!!

 

[Billb2]

Originally posted by: JonathanJace
e: drive had the most space so that was the target. i removed the cables from the c: drive and proceeded to install my fresh vista install on the e: drive.

When you disconnected the C: drive and installed Vista, Vista wrote it's MBR and boot loader files to the drive that was set as the boot drive in the BIOS (no matter where you told Vista to install it's OS files).

Now your Vista install can only see itself since it was not aware of the previously installed OS (you disconnected the C: drive) when it (Vista) was installed.

You can use BCDedit to fix that mess.