HELP: I can't boot after new partition

This is on a new system I recently (last week) built. By the way, many
thanks to you all here in this forum for all the knowledge provided. I
could not have successfully completed this challange without your
significant help.
I installed Vista64 ultimate. I have a new patch so that it now
recognizes the 4gig RAM.

I installed the OP on a partition (c: drive). This morning I went to
make a new partition F: (the balance of the HD) so that I can begin
installing my applications.

After a successful partition, I restarted and I get a message of death:
DISK BOOT FAILURE; INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

Well, I did insert the Vista OS disk and press enter, but I continue to
get this message.

Side note: I did create a restore point just before the partition,
should I simply restore to that point? Will that erase the partition
and solve this?

My initial thought is to go into bios and change some boot priority
settings, but I did not see anything there that would apply?

Tom


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tomd

tomd;518855 Wrote:
> This is on a new system I recently (last week) built. By the way, many
> thanks to you all here in this forum for all the knowledge provided. I
> could not have successfully completed this challange without your
> significant help.
> I installed Vista64 ultimate. I have a new patch so that it now
> recognizes the 4gig RAM.
>
> I installed the OP on a partition (c: drive). This morning I went to
> make a new partition F: (the balance of the HD) so that I can begin
> installing my applications.
>
> After a successful partition, I restarted and I get a message of death:
> DISK BOOT FAILURE; INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.
>
> Well, I did insert the Vista OS disk and press enter, but I continue to
> get this message.
>
> Side note: I did create a restore point just before the partition,
> should I simply restore to that point? Will that erase the partition and
> solve this?
>
> My initial thought is to go into bios and change some boot priority
> settings, but I did not see anything there that would apply?
>
> Tom

Hi Tom,

For some reason when your computer boots, it does not recognize that
the partition that you have Vista installed on is the System, Boot,
Active, Primary Partition. Take a look at the screenshot under step 14
in this tutorial to make sure your C:\ drive with Vista looks like this.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95...partition.html

If not, right click on it, and click "Mark Partition as Active".

Shawn


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Thanks Shawn,
I'll try this, but I can't even get into the OS.
The computer won't even load OS from the disk.

edit: I think it's going now, I went into BIOS and changed the boot
priorty.


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tomd

Tom,

Glad to hear it. The BIOS was going to be the next step.

Thank you for the feedback,
Shawn


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