SweetLemonade
New Member
First off, let me say that I've been using EasyBCD for awhile now, and its a great program. I definitely prefer using it over a GRUB bootmanager program.
But anyways, I'm having difficulties booting Vista from my 1st hard drive. Here's how I have it set up:
1st Hard Drive: Vista (750GB) - main OS
2nd Hard Drive: Windows XP (50GB), OS X 10.5.2 (50GB), Windows 7 Beta (100GB), and an extended partition for Linux that I plan to boot with GRUB installed to one of the logical partitions
Right now, I can only boot Vista after booting the second hard drive. In my perfect configuration, I would select the hard drive to boot into at startup by pushing F12. Then, the EasyBCD configuration on each MBR would control only the OS's on the hard drive, not allowing an option to boot an OS on the other drive.
I've tried absolutely everything to get the MBR and boot process of the first hard drive (the Vista one) booting correctly, but nothing is working. Here's all the things I've tried:
1) Fix MBR by going to the repair console in the Vista Installation DVD and using "bootrec.exe /fixmbr" and "bootrec.exe /fixboot"
2) Deleting the boot folder, bootmanager file, and resetting the bootloader in EasyBCD. I'm not sure if I was selecting the right boot partition though, since I wanted to edit the first hard drive's MBR, but had to boot into Vista using the second.
3) Using replacement boot files found on the internet to try and reset Vista's bootloader.
4) Startup Repair in the Vista Installation DVD - found problem but couldn't fix it
Right now, I'm just about to give up and try to reinstall Vista and the first HDD, but I really would like to not go to such extreme measures.
But anyways, I'm having difficulties booting Vista from my 1st hard drive. Here's how I have it set up:
1st Hard Drive: Vista (750GB) - main OS
2nd Hard Drive: Windows XP (50GB), OS X 10.5.2 (50GB), Windows 7 Beta (100GB), and an extended partition for Linux that I plan to boot with GRUB installed to one of the logical partitions
Right now, I can only boot Vista after booting the second hard drive. In my perfect configuration, I would select the hard drive to boot into at startup by pushing F12. Then, the EasyBCD configuration on each MBR would control only the OS's on the hard drive, not allowing an option to boot an OS on the other drive.
I've tried absolutely everything to get the MBR and boot process of the first hard drive (the Vista one) booting correctly, but nothing is working. Here's all the things I've tried:
1) Fix MBR by going to the repair console in the Vista Installation DVD and using "bootrec.exe /fixmbr" and "bootrec.exe /fixboot"
2) Deleting the boot folder, bootmanager file, and resetting the bootloader in EasyBCD. I'm not sure if I was selecting the right boot partition though, since I wanted to edit the first hard drive's MBR, but had to boot into Vista using the second.
3) Using replacement boot files found on the internet to try and reset Vista's bootloader.
4) Startup Repair in the Vista Installation DVD - found problem but couldn't fix it
Right now, I'm just about to give up and try to reinstall Vista and the first HDD, but I really would like to not go to such extreme measures.
