Vista 32 Ultimate Will not boot into windows from new HDD

Okay, this is a weird one. I put in a new 250GB HDD (SATA) as my primary
drive. I have two DVD RW (one SATA and one EIDE).

I formated and installed a clean version of Vista Ultimate on the 250GB
drive using the install tools on the Vista DVD.

Restarted the system without issues without the DVD in. Used the User
migration tool on the Vista DVD to move the backed up files from my previous
install to the clean install.

Now, if I start my computer, it says that the HDD is not a valid boot disk.

If I start with the Vista DVD in one of the two DVD drives, it boots into
the windows on the C drive without issue.

I tried running the Startup Repair from the DVD, and it has not changed it.
Does anyone know what may be occuring? Have an idea of what I may be
overlooking?

Did you mark partition as active?

"ShadoShryke" <> wrote in message
news:27202CC5-0D5F-4CF1-B5DB-...
> Okay, this is a weird one. I put in a new 250GB HDD (SATA) as my primary
> drive. I have two DVD RW (one SATA and one EIDE).
>
> I formated and installed a clean version of Vista Ultimate on the 250GB
> drive using the install tools on the Vista DVD.
>
> Restarted the system without issues without the DVD in. Used the User
> migration tool on the Vista DVD to move the backed up files from my
> previous
> install to the clean install.
>
> Now, if I start my computer, it says that the HDD is not a valid boot
> disk.
>
> If I start with the Vista DVD in one of the two DVD drives, it boots into
> the windows on the C drive without issue.
>
> I tried running the Startup Repair from the DVD, and it has not changed
> it.
> Does anyone know what may be occuring? Have an idea of what I may be
> overlooking?

OK. I get this if I leave an external USB harddrive running during boot. My
solution is to turn off the external USB harddrive, and only then turn on
the computer and start the booting up. 'Seems the BIOS on my machine gets
confused when USB storage devices are running during boot.

Saucy



"ShadoShryke" <> wrote in message
news:27202CC5-0D5F-4CF1-B5DB-...
> Okay, this is a weird one. I put in a new 250GB HDD (SATA) as my primary
> drive. I have two DVD RW (one SATA and one EIDE).
>
> I formated and installed a clean version of Vista Ultimate on the 250GB
> drive using the install tools on the Vista DVD.
>
> Restarted the system without issues without the DVD in. Used the User
> migration tool on the Vista DVD to move the backed up files from my
> previous
> install to the clean install.
>
> Now, if I start my computer, it says that the HDD is not a valid boot
> disk.
>
> If I start with the Vista DVD in one of the two DVD drives, it boots into
> the windows on the C drive without issue.
>
> I tried running the Startup Repair from the DVD, and it has not changed
> it.
> Does anyone know what may be occuring? Have an idea of what I may be
> overlooking?

If there are more than one hard drive connected to the motherboard,
make sure the bios is set to boot from the correct drive.

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:46:02 -0700, ShadoShryke
<> wrote:

>Okay, this is a weird one. I put in a new 250GB HDD (SATA) as my primary
>drive. I have two DVD RW (one SATA and one EIDE).
>
>I formated and installed a clean version of Vista Ultimate on the 250GB
>drive using the install tools on the Vista DVD.
>
>Restarted the system without issues without the DVD in. Used the User
>migration tool on the Vista DVD to move the backed up files from my previous
>install to the clean install.
>
>Now, if I start my computer, it says that the HDD is not a valid boot disk.
>
>If I start with the Vista DVD in one of the two DVD drives, it boots into
>the windows on the C drive without issue.
>
>I tried running the Startup Repair from the DVD, and it has not changed it.
> Does anyone know what may be occuring? Have an idea of what I may be
>overlooking?

Re-Format Your Computer And Install Open Source Linux Ubuntu 9.04 RTW From
http://www.ubuntu.com/.

"ShadoShryke" <> wrote in message
news:27202CC5-0D5F-4CF1-B5DB-...
> Okay, this is a weird one. I put in a new 250GB HDD (SATA) as my primary
> drive. I have two DVD RW (one SATA and one EIDE).
>
> I formated and installed a clean version of Vista Ultimate on the 250GB
> drive using the install tools on the Vista DVD.
>
> Restarted the system without issues without the DVD in. Used the User
> migration tool on the Vista DVD to move the backed up files from my
> previous
> install to the clean install.
>
> Now, if I start my computer, it says that the HDD is not a valid boot
> disk.
>
> If I start with the Vista DVD in one of the two DVD drives, it boots into
> the windows on the C drive without issue.
>
> I tried running the Startup Repair from the DVD, and it has not changed
> it.
> Does anyone know what may be occuring? Have an idea of what I may be
> overlooking?

Hi, Dusko,

Windows Vista install process ensures that the drive is active from the
start if no other operating system is found. Yes, the drive partition is
Primary, Active and Basic (would never use Dynamic Disks on threat of life
and limb).

ShadoShryke

"Dusko Savatovic" wrote:

> Did you mark partition as active?
>
> "ShadoShryke" <> wrote in message
> news:27202CC5-0D5F-4CF1-B5DB-...
> > Okay, this is a weird one. I put in a new 250GB HDD (SATA) as my primary
> > drive. I have two DVD RW (one SATA and one EIDE).
> >
> > I formated and installed a clean version of Vista Ultimate on the 250GB
> > drive using the install tools on the Vista DVD.
> >
> > Restarted the system without issues without the DVD in. Used the User
> > migration tool on the Vista DVD to move the backed up files from my
> > previous
> > install to the clean install.
> >
> > Now, if I start my computer, it says that the HDD is not a valid boot
> > disk.
> >
> > If I start with the Vista DVD in one of the two DVD drives, it boots into
> > the windows on the C drive without issue.
> >
> > I tried running the Startup Repair from the DVD, and it has not changed
> > it.
> > Does anyone know what may be occuring? Have an idea of what I may be
> > overlooking?
>
>

BIOS choice only allows me to chose SATA and does not let me pick a specific
drive. Good thought though.
Remember that it lets me boot with the DVD in, and it does not matter if the
DVD is in the SATA connected DVD-RW or the EIDE connected DVD-RW, and if a
DVD is not in, it should default to the first drive.
Further note: This also happened when my C drive was on the EIDE channel.



"andy" wrote:

> If there are more than one hard drive connected to the motherboard,
> make sure the bios is set to boot from the correct drive.
>
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:46:02 -0700, ShadoShryke
> <> wrote:
>
> >Okay, this is a weird one. I put in a new 250GB HDD (SATA) as my primary
> >drive. I have two DVD RW (one SATA and one EIDE).
> >
> >I formated and installed a clean version of Vista Ultimate on the 250GB
> >drive using the install tools on the Vista DVD.
> >
> >Restarted the system without issues without the DVD in. Used the User
> >migration tool on the Vista DVD to move the backed up files from my previous
> >install to the clean install.
> >
> >Now, if I start my computer, it says that the HDD is not a valid boot disk.
> >
> >If I start with the Vista DVD in one of the two DVD drives, it boots into
> >the windows on the C drive without issue.
> >
> >I tried running the Startup Repair from the DVD, and it has not changed it.
> > Does anyone know what may be occuring? Have an idea of what I may be
> >overlooking?
>
>

I appreciate your enthusiasm for Ubuntu. I use virtual machines for a lot of
my work, but I do not feel like dropping the $30,000 in software investment
that I currently have.

This is not a common Windows or Vista problem. This is an oddball, or I
would have already solved it. I have experience with every version of
Windows, most versions of Linux, a number of versions of Apple and Mac OSes,
OS2/Warp, many versions of DOS and even Amiga DOS and GEOS.

I did not ask for a suggestion on a different, less compatible, operating
system that would cause me to spend more money and time in changing out
professional software. I simply asked for those that knew how to fix this
with Vista to make sure it works the way I want.

Have a great day.

ShadoShryke


"" wrote:

> Re-Format Your Computer And Install Open Source Linux Ubuntu 9.04 RTW From
> http://www.ubuntu.com/.
>
> "ShadoShryke" <> wrote in message
> news:27202CC5-0D5F-4CF1-B5DB-...
> > Okay, this is a weird one. I put in a new 250GB HDD (SATA) as my primary
> > drive. I have two DVD RW (one SATA and one EIDE).
> >
> > I formated and installed a clean version of Vista Ultimate on the 250GB
> > drive using the install tools on the Vista DVD.
> >
> > Restarted the system without issues without the DVD in. Used the User
> > migration tool on the Vista DVD to move the backed up files from my
> > previous
> > install to the clean install.
> >
> > Now, if I start my computer, it says that the HDD is not a valid boot
> > disk.
> >
> > If I start with the Vista DVD in one of the two DVD drives, it boots into
> > the windows on the C drive without issue.
> >
> > I tried running the Startup Repair from the DVD, and it has not changed
> > it.
> > Does anyone know what may be occuring? Have an idea of what I may be
> > overlooking?
>
>

"ShadoShryke" <> wrote in message
news:C463D2D9-D8A4-40DD-AB4E-...
> I appreciate your enthusiasm for Ubuntu. I use virtual machines for a lot
> of
> my work, but I do not feel like dropping the $30,000 in software
> investment
> that I currently have.
>
> This is not a common Windows or Vista problem. This is an oddball, or I
> would have already solved it. I have experience with every version of
> Windows, most versions of Linux, a number of versions of Apple and Mac
> OSes,
> OS2/Warp, many versions of DOS and even Amiga DOS and GEOS.
>
> I did not ask for a suggestion on a different, less compatible, operating
> system that would cause me to spend more money and time in changing out
> professional software. I simply asked for those that knew how to fix
> this
> with Vista to make sure it works the way I want.

"Kevpan815" is a well-known lunatic and gibbering idiot in this group.
Ignore anything and everything he/she/it posts...

Also, please note the part of my original post that stated:
Restarted the system without issues without the DVD in.

This means that it successfully booted from the SATA drive the first time.
Now, something else is affecting it.


"Dusko Savatovic" wrote:

> Did you mark partition as active?
>
> "ShadoShryke" <> wrote in message
> news:27202CC5-0D5F-4CF1-B5DB-...
> > Okay, this is a weird one. I put in a new 250GB HDD (SATA) as my primary
> > drive. I have two DVD RW (one SATA and one EIDE).
> >
> > I formated and installed a clean version of Vista Ultimate on the 250GB
> > drive using the install tools on the Vista DVD.
> >
> > Restarted the system without issues without the DVD in. Used the User
> > migration tool on the Vista DVD to move the backed up files from my
> > previous
> > install to the clean install.
> >
> > Now, if I start my computer, it says that the HDD is not a valid boot
> > disk.
> >
> > If I start with the Vista DVD in one of the two DVD drives, it boots into
> > the windows on the C drive without issue.
> >
> > I tried running the Startup Repair from the DVD, and it has not changed
> > it.
> > Does anyone know what may be occuring? Have an idea of what I may be
> > overlooking?
>
>