OK, ran into something weird so I hope someone can give me some insight.
So I'm running dual hard drives. My Vista x64 install is on my old hard drive chugging along and I got a new Velociraptor to celebrate Windows 7 intending to make 7 my primary drive while formatting my old hard drive to use a media storage device. That was my intent anyway.
So I get my windows 7 install down right, finally got the ATI catalyst drivers to install properly and I'm feeling good. I got all my media copied to the windows 7 disk and ready to format my Vista one. I try to initialize the format via My Computer, the drive letter is erased, and I am given an error saying that the disk cannot be formated. Ok I say, I'll boot off my UBCD and nuke you from there. Before I did that I tried a restart. No reason for this other then not having my UBCD on hand and the restart going to boot too soon. Problems arose immediatly.
No bootable media detected. Get a boot error saying that there is a boot device read error, please restart. Restarted trying to boot off the Vista drive, but same error. So basically no access to either the semi-formatted Vista drive, nor the fresh (and previously working) windows 7 drive. Put in the windows 7 DVD, but the install wouldn't pick up the windows 7 disk as an installed OS so could not repair the installation that way. Trying to repair the start up also failed.
Finally I tried to put my Vista DVD back in and run start-up repair on the semi-formatted Vista drive. This, thank god, succeeded in restoring the Vista drive. But the strange thing is that it ALSO made my Windows 7 drive work again as well. Seems like the boot partition or information is somehow stored on the Vista drive and thus WIndows 7 can't function without the original Vista drive being present.
I've backed up all my media now on an external just in case. But I would like to format the one disk all together leaving just the WIndows 7 drive. Am I now forced to do a clean install? Anyone with any ideas, any help would be appreciated....
So I'm running dual hard drives. My Vista x64 install is on my old hard drive chugging along and I got a new Velociraptor to celebrate Windows 7 intending to make 7 my primary drive while formatting my old hard drive to use a media storage device. That was my intent anyway.
So I get my windows 7 install down right, finally got the ATI catalyst drivers to install properly and I'm feeling good. I got all my media copied to the windows 7 disk and ready to format my Vista one. I try to initialize the format via My Computer, the drive letter is erased, and I am given an error saying that the disk cannot be formated. Ok I say, I'll boot off my UBCD and nuke you from there. Before I did that I tried a restart. No reason for this other then not having my UBCD on hand and the restart going to boot too soon. Problems arose immediatly.
No bootable media detected. Get a boot error saying that there is a boot device read error, please restart. Restarted trying to boot off the Vista drive, but same error. So basically no access to either the semi-formatted Vista drive, nor the fresh (and previously working) windows 7 drive. Put in the windows 7 DVD, but the install wouldn't pick up the windows 7 disk as an installed OS so could not repair the installation that way. Trying to repair the start up also failed.
Finally I tried to put my Vista DVD back in and run start-up repair on the semi-formatted Vista drive. This, thank god, succeeded in restoring the Vista drive. But the strange thing is that it ALSO made my Windows 7 drive work again as well. Seems like the boot partition or information is somehow stored on the Vista drive and thus WIndows 7 can't function without the original Vista drive being present.
I've backed up all my media now on an external just in case. But I would like to format the one disk all together leaving just the WIndows 7 drive. Am I now forced to do a clean install? Anyone with any ideas, any help would be appreciated....
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