Vista / XP Pro Boot Problems. Help!

[Saner]

This is so stupid its unbelivable. My hatred for MS has been re-fueled. Onto the problem!

When building a new PC today I had a SATA drive as a Primary and an IDE as a Slave (This has all my old files on)

The plan was to install a fresh copy of Vista on the new SATA, copy over my files and bin the old worn out and noisey IDE.

Everything went perfectly, I have installed shed loadsa programs and it all works, files copied over, perfect. The I disconnect my old IDE.

Turns out that Vista is using the old IDE to boot from, without the IDE pluged in I get a Disk Boot Failure. With it pluged in I get to choose it from a list of OS's

Any ideas on how I can get round this?

Saner

 

[RSi Dave]

copy back your documents to the IDE, format the SATA.

Then remove the IDE, install Vista on the SATA and once sorted put back in the IDE, double check the jumper to be "Cable Select" Once start copy over documents again and then bin the IDE.

 

[Daz]

Hmm, you just need to fix the boot sector.. if it's the same as XP, you can boot from CD, go into recovery console and do fixboot, fixmbr, etc..

I ain't booted from a Vista CD for ages, so not sure what sort of recovery stuff is on there, heh.

 

[Saner]

Daz, That I have tryed, using the Vista CD to boot from it dosen't recognise the SATA drive, so I can't select it to fix it. Even tho it gives me an option to load drivers for a hard drive, and will let me search the SATA drive. Stupid.

RSi Dave, that is what I have done in the end, what is the difference between Cable Select and Slave?

 

[RSi Dave]

Nothing really, in all fairness it probs easier to set the jumpers.

on the IDE cable there should be 3 connectors

1 x blue
1 x black
1 x grey

Blue is normally the one that connects to the mobo, black is classed as master and grey is classed as slave. Although cables can vary.

I run my DVD drive as Master and the IDE HDD as Slave because thats how the cable runs up through the case, i also have lost the jumper for the HDD. Not the best way of doing it.