Can this installation be saved?

I had w2k on drive C (IDE drive). I added a SATA drive to the system as
drive D for data and back up.

I reformatted Drive D and used the bios to change the drive order reversing
drives C and D.

I then used a vista home premium upgrade disk to do a clean install on the
SATA drive (now drive C) by installing vista twice. I left the IDE drive
connected.

Every thing seemed fine except I wound up with a duel boot system. I would
now like to remove w2k. I disconnected the IDE drive (Drive D) and tried to
reboot. I get "Error Loading OS" message. When the IDE drive is reconnected
the system boots without a problem.

I would like to boot vista from Drive C (SATA) and reformat drive D (IDE) to
use it for data and backup. Can this be done and save my installation? How?

"jm" <> wrote in message
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> Every thing seemed fine except I wound up with a duel boot system. I
> would now like to remove w2k. I disconnected the IDE drive (Drive D) and
> tried to reboot. I get "Error Loading OS" message. When the IDE drive is
> reconnected the system boots without a problem.
>
> I would like to boot vista from Drive C (SATA) and reformat drive D (IDE)
> to use it for data and backup. Can this be done and save my installation?
> How?

this is a case of adding the necessary boot files to C: as they were
presumably installed to D:

"Boot from the Vista DVD and on the screen where you're prompted to "Install
now", select "Repair your computer". " is the usual advice.
http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp

Phil

You may have to run "Repair" several times.

"jm" <> wrote in message
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>I had w2k on drive C (IDE drive). I added a SATA drive to the system as
>drive D for data and back up.
>
> I reformatted Drive D and used the bios to change the drive order
> reversing drives C and D.
>
> I then used a vista home premium upgrade disk to do a clean install on the
> SATA drive (now drive C) by installing vista twice. I left the IDE drive
> connected.
>
> Every thing seemed fine except I wound up with a duel boot system. I
> would now like to remove w2k. I disconnected the IDE drive (Drive D) and
> tried to reboot. I get "Error Loading OS" message. When the IDE drive is
> reconnected the system boots without a problem.
>
> I would like to boot vista from Drive C (SATA) and reformat drive D (IDE)
> to use it for data and backup. Can this be done and save my installation?
> How?
>
>

thank you for your suggestion. I tried that but no operating systems are
listed to repair even when using the driver disk with drive D disconnected.
is
there any other way to get the necessary boot files on drive C?



"PhilT" <> wrote in message
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>
> "jm" <> wrote in message
> news:cqZ%h.11288$rm.5158@trndny03...
>> Every thing seemed fine except I wound up with a duel boot system. I
>> would now like to remove w2k. I disconnected the IDE drive (Drive D) and
>> tried to reboot. I get "Error Loading OS" message. When the IDE drive is
>> reconnected the system boots without a problem.
>>
>> I would like to boot vista from Drive C (SATA) and reformat drive D (IDE)
>> to use it for data and backup. Can this be done and save my installation?
>> How?
>
> this is a case of adding the necessary boot files to C: as they were
> presumably installed to D:
>
> "Boot from the Vista DVD and on the screen where you're prompted to
> "Install now", select "Repair your computer". " is the usual advice.
> http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp
>
> Phil

"jm" wrote:

> thank you for your suggestion. I tried that but no operating systems are
> listed to repair even when using the driver disk with drive D disconnected.
> is
> there any other way to get the necessary boot files on drive C?
>
>
>

If presume the "bootmanager" file is in the root of the XP system.

Copy it to the Vista root directory.

You may have to copy the " boot" folder as well from XP to vista.

I am confident that Vista repair will work after that.

that worked. thank you very much for your help


"Farouk Dindar" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> "jm" wrote:
>
>> thank you for your suggestion. I tried that but no operating systems are
>> listed to repair even when using the driver disk with drive D
>> disconnected.
>> is
>> there any other way to get the necessary boot files on drive C?
>>
>>
>>
>
> If presume the "bootmanager" file is in the root of the XP system.
>
> Copy it to the Vista root directory.
>
> You may have to copy the " boot" folder as well from XP to vista.
>
> I am confident that Vista repair will work after that.
>
>
>