Hi,
I'm new to this forum and the vista operating system and as the title says have a problem with the missing boot manager that I hope you can help me with.
I have built a new PC from a barebone system, I installed a 250G sata drive intending it to be used as the primary with vista running from it. I also installed a 60G IDE
drive from my old computer that was only used for backing up my data so no operating system on it.
I have a Vista OEM Home Premium DVD, when installing firstly it didn't like the sata drive but selecting some of the options offered windows suddenly said it had everything it needed to install, this it did, removed the DVD and booted into Vista and everything appears to be working fine.
On looking at my computer however, I notice that I have vista installed on the "C" Drive (the 250G sata drive), and the IDE is the "D" drive, but I notice from vista drive manager that the system files are on the IDE "D" drive. Drive Manager shows:
Disk 0: SATA1 250G two equal partitions drives C(healthy, boot, pagefile, active,crash dump, primary partition) and E(healthy, primary partition)
Disk 1: IDE 60G single partition drive E(healthy,system,active,primary partition)
BIOS is set to boot from the 60G drive. If I now try to change the boot priority in BIOS to boot from the SATA drive I get the dreaded "Missing Boot Manager" error and of course restarting does not solve this. Changing the boot priority back gives me vista again.
So the golden question is "Can EasyBCD solve this for me and what steps do I need to take to move the boot manager files to the sata drive ?"
I have looked through your forum and seen similar cases where members have had dual boot problems etc.....and have been given instructions to use the repair function of the installation DVD, rebuild the BCD so on and so forth, but being an OEM version DVD I am not sure if this facility is there and am somewhat apprehensive about the whole thing in case anything goes wrong.
Could anyone please help and offer simple step by step guidance in either the use of EasyBCD or otherwise ?
Thanking you in anticipation.
Malcolm
I'm new to this forum and the vista operating system and as the title says have a problem with the missing boot manager that I hope you can help me with.
I have built a new PC from a barebone system, I installed a 250G sata drive intending it to be used as the primary with vista running from it. I also installed a 60G IDE
drive from my old computer that was only used for backing up my data so no operating system on it.
I have a Vista OEM Home Premium DVD, when installing firstly it didn't like the sata drive but selecting some of the options offered windows suddenly said it had everything it needed to install, this it did, removed the DVD and booted into Vista and everything appears to be working fine.
On looking at my computer however, I notice that I have vista installed on the "C" Drive (the 250G sata drive), and the IDE is the "D" drive, but I notice from vista drive manager that the system files are on the IDE "D" drive. Drive Manager shows:
Disk 0: SATA1 250G two equal partitions drives C(healthy, boot, pagefile, active,crash dump, primary partition) and E(healthy, primary partition)
Disk 1: IDE 60G single partition drive E(healthy,system,active,primary partition)
BIOS is set to boot from the 60G drive. If I now try to change the boot priority in BIOS to boot from the SATA drive I get the dreaded "Missing Boot Manager" error and of course restarting does not solve this. Changing the boot priority back gives me vista again.
So the golden question is "Can EasyBCD solve this for me and what steps do I need to take to move the boot manager files to the sata drive ?"
I have looked through your forum and seen similar cases where members have had dual boot problems etc.....and have been given instructions to use the repair function of the installation DVD, rebuild the BCD so on and so forth, but being an OEM version DVD I am not sure if this facility is there and am somewhat apprehensive about the whole thing in case anything goes wrong.
Could anyone please help and offer simple step by step guidance in either the use of EasyBCD or otherwise ?
Thanking you in anticipation.
Malcolm