Hello all, newbie here:P

After flashing my BIOS and rebooting i got a bootmgr is missing message when trying to boot from my C: drive where vista is, but i can boot from my D: drive which has no OS on or CD/DVD by selecting them in the boot priority.

Below is my BCD, can some kind soul help me out to boot from C: again, i tried copying the boot over to C: myself but it didnt work and i get a error about bcd now......this was before i found VistaBootPRO, i cant do a repair via the vista disc because its OEM:(


Entry 1
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Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Boot Drive: C:
Windows Drive: C:
System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry 2
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Name: Earlier Version of Windows
BCD ID: {ntldr}
Boot Drive: D:
System Bootloader: \ntldr

SickMan wrote:

i cant do a repair via the vista disc because its OEM:(

The repair option of previous Windows versions no longer exists for Windows Vista or 2008

JabbaPapa wrote:

SickMan wrote: i cant do a repair via the vista disc because its OEM:( The repair option of previous Windows versions no longer exists for Windows Vista or 2008

Any suggestions on how to fix this then?

check the boot sequence in the bios, make sure the correct drive is first to boot

Its down as C: in the bios as first priority then D: my other hard drive then CD/dvd drive

Oh wait, do you mean that you have no Vista installation DVD ?

Or what ?

I'm confused.

It would be helpful if you could possibly provide details of how you created the dual boot setup on your computer

Firsty its not a dual boot, i have 2 hard drives, C: for windows and programs etc, and D: for games, music and backups. The only vista disc i have is a OEM one that came with the computer and that has no repair on it after selecting language and keyboard layout. Somehow after updating my bios bootmgr is not on C: but D:, try and boot from C: and i get a bcd error, boot from D: is fine........i just want to know how to get back to C: being the boot drive using vistabootpr.

if i look on disk management D: is down as system drive......which is confusing, also does vista need a partition?

Oh I see.

Hmmm this is a confusing one ... :-/

Have you tried inverting the hard drive cables ?

Not touched any of the hard drive cables, before bios update everything was fine, C was the boot drive, D was nothing. So i'm stumped how my boot drive has switched, would installing vista again cure it you think? blank both drives and start again?

And does vista need a partition like xp did?

No, I mean have you tried inverting the drive cables as a possible solution for this ?

It would seem that somehow they have been switched, and this may be something you can try to "fix" it.

You could also try unplugging what you're calling the D drive, and booting with C alone (although at this level, the drive letters are irrelevant ).

And I'm not sure what you mean about "needing" a partition.

On the one hand, of course, Windows must be installed into a formatted partition ; on the other hand, no it is not necessary to split up a hard drive into various partitions of different sizes, you can just have a single partition using the entire hard drive. But this is just confusing the issue IMO