Lost vista boot. Help a newbie?

jamriman · #1 May 26th, 2009, 03:36 AM

Greetings to all,
I installed os86 on an IDE HD. I installed easybcd on my vista HD. Now I can only boot on my os86 IDE drive. I tried vista repair, restore to no avail. When I hit tab on the boot prompt it put me in a menu which only shows the oS86 choice (no vista) when I created them from easybcd. Is there a way to remove the easybsd using os86 so I can boot back into vista? Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks

Coolname007 · #2 May 26th, 2009, 04:43 AM

Hello Jamriman, welcome to NST.
EasyBCD isn't the source of your problem. It fixes problems, not causes them, usually.

It sounds like your problem could be having the wrong HDD first (most likely OS X's) in the boot sequence in your BIOS (accessed by F2, Del, or a similar key when seeing the first splash screen when starting your computer; it should show you what key you need you need to press to enter the BIOS). Check that first, and if it solves the problem, then great. Otherwise, post back if it turns out that is not the issue, and it is something else.

jamriman · #3 June 5th, 2009, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Coolname007

Hello Jamriman, welcome to NST.
EasyBCD isn't the source of your problem. It fixes problems, not causes them, usually.

It sounds like your problem could be having the wrong HDD first (most likely OS X's) in the boot sequence in your BIOS (accessed by F2, Del, or a similar key when seeing the first splash screen when starting your computer; it should show you what key you need you need to press to enter the BIOS). Check that first, and if it solves the problem, then great. Otherwise, post back if it turns out that is not the issue, and it is something else.

I reinstalled vista. Before I reinstall EasyBCD, would the beta version be more useful since it has a setting for the number of drives? Many thanks for your help!!

Coolname007 · #4 June 5th, 2009, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by jamriman

I reinstalled vista. Before I reinstall EasyBCD, would the beta version be more useful since it has a setting for the number of drives? Many thanks for your help!!

Yes, use Build 63 of EasyBCD beta, since it allows you to select the drive OS X is installed to with EFI mode (a feature that did not exist in the 1.7 release).