SonicImaging
Member
Hi, my vista system starting having trouble a few days ago which is as follows
Vista Ultimate
2 drive arrays, one setup to boot
my boot array got corrupted so I purchased a extra IDE drive to install vista on so I can recover my data and fix my boot partition, by deleting and recreating. I popped in the eide drive and installed vista, recovered my data, fixed my partition then went and installed vista on my original boot partition.
So now the eide drive shows up as the system but my computer boots from the correct array partition. if I remove the eide drive it wont boot from the partition so im guessing the vista install marked the eide drive as the system and not the boot partition.
How can I fix this issue, i ended up deleting most of the vista files on the eide drive so its not a bootable drive anymore and if I try to go into drivemanager and format it, its greyed out.
so im guessing the boot info is on the eide since when I boot I get 2 vista's in the selection screen, but now with easybcd I have the boot folder and the bcd file on both drives, but still the same problem if I set the array to boot in the bios it says its not valid, i have to set the eide as the boot drive and select the first vista in the list to boot from the partition.
In disk management in admin shows this
Disk 0 D: Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition - this is the eide
Disk 1 C: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primany Parition) - this is my array
then the rest of my drives
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance
-Keith
Vista Ultimate
2 drive arrays, one setup to boot
my boot array got corrupted so I purchased a extra IDE drive to install vista on so I can recover my data and fix my boot partition, by deleting and recreating. I popped in the eide drive and installed vista, recovered my data, fixed my partition then went and installed vista on my original boot partition.
So now the eide drive shows up as the system but my computer boots from the correct array partition. if I remove the eide drive it wont boot from the partition so im guessing the vista install marked the eide drive as the system and not the boot partition.
How can I fix this issue, i ended up deleting most of the vista files on the eide drive so its not a bootable drive anymore and if I try to go into drivemanager and format it, its greyed out.
so im guessing the boot info is on the eide since when I boot I get 2 vista's in the selection screen, but now with easybcd I have the boot folder and the bcd file on both drives, but still the same problem if I set the array to boot in the bios it says its not valid, i have to set the eide as the boot drive and select the first vista in the list to boot from the partition.
In disk management in admin shows this
Disk 0 D: Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition - this is the eide
Disk 1 C: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primany Parition) - this is my array
then the rest of my drives
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance
-Keith