[BeeTee-Ess]

I have been running Vista for some time, and decided the time had come for a fresh install.

I first installed a second hard drive in the PC (leaviing the original in place), then rebooted the PC, with the Vista DVD in the DVD drive. The Windows install to the new HDD was trouble free. So I now have Vista systems on each of the two hard drives.

However, Vista has set up a dual boot environment without my asking for it. I do not want the dual boot system, as I am happy to manipulate the choice of boot drive using the BIOS. Ultimately, I intend to phase out the original system altogether.

I tried setting the BIOS to boot from the new drive, but the system tells me it cannot find the boot loader.

I have installed VistaBootPRO on the new system, but am uncertain how I should go about removing the dual boot setup.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

[NT50]

What happen is Vista recognized your first install of Vista and utilized its boot records and did not copy them to your new hard drive.

This is what I would do if it was mine.

I would copy the file "bootmgr" and the folder and contents "boot" to the root of the new hard drive. Once done I would then disconnect the old hard drive and boot to the Vista DVD. From there do a startup repair instead of install. Reboot and make sure that you computer boots soley to the new hard drive.

NOW you cna plug in the old hard drive and set your bios to boot to the new hard drive.

[BeeTee-Ess]

What happen is Vista recognized your first install of Vista and utilized its boot records and did not copy them to your new hard drive.

This is what I would do if it was mine.

I would copy the file "bootmgr" and the folder and contents "boot" to the root of the new hard drive. Once done I would then disconnect the old hard drive and boot to the Vista DVD. From there do a startup repair instead of install. Reboot and make sure that you computer boots soley to the new hard drive.

NOW you cna plug in the old hard drive and set your bios to boot to the new hard drive.

Thanks for the advice Jeff...

I am not ready to abandon the ability to boot the old drive just yet, in case I need to run something from the old environment. So for now I shall persist with the dual boot setup. I shall follow your procedure when I have finished with the old setup.

I expected to be able to fix things using VistaBootPRO, but I could not see how.