Vista boot manager issue

[wayliff]

Hi ... I somehow managed to screw up my vista boot by trying to remove my xp install.

Story:
I had a dual boot of XP and Vista 64-bit where XP was the main OS.
I eventually migrated all my stuff to vista and using vista I changed my computer to no longer offer vista and XP while booting but just to boot straight to vista. (That worked fine).
After a sometime, I decided it was time to remove xp from my machine.
So when I tried to format from vista, the xp partition was the system partition so I could not just wipe out from vista.
Then I booted from the vista CD and went into the command line...used bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot and bootrec /rebuildbcd. To be able to change the vista partition to be the system partition.

After that somehow my Vista partition is drive F and Drive C became corrupted, which is where XP lived in, I reformatted C since it was corrupt and Now I cannot boot into vista.

It says the bootmanager is missing.

My guess is that it tries to go into Drive C but since the parition is F it wont boot but I am not sure.

Can anyone shine some light here? Is there a way to change the drive letter from the command prompt?

Thanks

 

[robisbell]

can you get to the vista partition with the cd?

 

[wayliff]

Yes, I can get to the vista partition with the CD from the command prompt.
I somehow are unable to see it when Vista CD looks for already installed OS.

 

[robisbell]

you may have to wipe all partitions and reload.

 

[wayliff]

That is what I have been afraid of.

I have been reading and I should have been more careful about removing XP.


However I may try a couple of things before I do that.
I will post the results in case it helps somebody...or even just to say I had to reload.

Thanks

 

[robisbell]

okay, if you can access the drive, see if you can copy what data you need to save to a usb drive.

 

[wayliff]

well i was not able to boot from my vista installation.

Instead of wiping out I reused the XP partition for a new install of vista so I can copy so of my stuff over...