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WHY IS ACTIVATING BOOT DRIVE SO HARD

Postby sportfotos » Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:05 am

I have had the same problem for 3 years. Because my windows vista cd wont auto boot, I run in from another hdd with a version of vista installed. I then select the new hdd on which to install the new vista version. Ok thats great not a problem....boots freely until I remove the older HDD.
Obviously, what is happening, is that the bootmgr file is on the old disk and I have a dual boot option. Both OS's boot while the old HDD is present.
Take away the old HDD and I get message bootmgr missing.
BOTH hard drives are set to active. I have tried lots of apps as well as VISTABOOTPR but they ALL fail
There must be lots of users out there that have this problem.....how can I fix it.

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Re: WHY IS ACTIVATING BOOT DRIVE SO HARD

Postby jbullard » Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:55 am

Robert,

You can try the following. You are right in your statement that the bootloader must reside on the old HDD.

1. Open My Computer
2. Select the Organize menu
3. Select Folder Options
4. Select View Tab
5. Uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System Files and Folders"
6. Locate your old HDD and navigate to it
7. Look for the folder "Boot"
8. Copy that folder to the new HDD
9. Open VistaBootPRO and goto the System Bootloader screen
10. Select "Windows Vista", "Specific Drive" (New HDD), "Force Install", and then Apply.
11. Reboot

If this works you should be able to remove the old HDD and still boot into your new HDD. If it doesn't let us know and we can go from there. :yesnod:

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Re: WHY IS ACTIVATING BOOT DRIVE SO HARD

Postby sportfotos » Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:25 pm

Hello jbullard.
Just one question...Do you mean copy the boot file that resides in the root directory of C or the boot folder in C:\windows, or the boot folders in C:\windows\system32 etc ???

I just want to make sure I do it right.


I will follow your instructions tonight when I get home from work.

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Re: WHY IS ACTIVATING BOOT DRIVE SO HARD

Postby yeshuas » Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:55 pm

sportfotos wrote:Hello jbullard.
Just one question...Do you mean copy the boot file that resides in the root directory of C or the boot folder in C:\windows, or the boot folders in C:\windows\system32 etc ???

I just want to make sure I do it right.


I will follow your instructions tonight when I get home from work.

Regards,
Robert


I am pretty sure he is talking about the "Folder" called "Boot" which will be in the root directory of the old HD
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Re: WHY IS ACTIVATING BOOT DRIVE SO HARD

Postby jbullard » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:13 am

Robert,

Just following up to see if this worked for you.

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Re: WHY IS ACTIVATING BOOT DRIVE SO HARD

Postby sportfotos » Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:09 am

Hello Jason,
I can copy all files OK EXCEPT for 2 files in the boot folder. The 2 files are BCD.log (a text file which shouldn't matter) and BCD system file 40KB. From what I have read this is the main file I need. I keep getting a message "the action cant be completed because the file is open in another program".
C drive from where I attempt to copy the file from is not boot drive so the file cant be in use.

I look forward to any further assistance you can give me.
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Re: WHY IS ACTIVATING BOOT DRIVE SO HARD

Postby sportfotos » Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:47 am

Just an update on progress??. I have tried to export the BCD file using bcdedit because Vista wont let me copy it. I have been successful in doing this BUT as usual there is another anomaly. The C drive BCD file contains 40KB but when I export it to E drive it only contains 24KB and does not have the system watermark that the original has.......beats me!!

BCDEDIT says file exported successfully.

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Re: WHY IS ACTIVATING BOOT DRIVE SO HARD

Postby sportfotos » Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:06 am

^*^ :whistle
Yes you will see from my happy face I eventually got it. Your assistance was the foundation for my success and I thank you.

I persevered with the bcdedit and even though I only got a 24KB file instead of the 40KB original, I decided to try it so I re-booted without the old boot drive and to my surprise it booted!!!

So after 3 years of having to run 2 C drives, I can now go back to just the one as it contains all the boot info.
A very happy ending....I will celebrate with a beer or two.
Thanks again to all concerned.

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