Vista boot problem

[althebowler]

I have xp installed on my main drive and i have vista installed on the other, vista will not boot off of the other drive. I have tried the start up repair facility but to no avail, any suggestions.

 

[red1776]

Hi althebowler,
have you gone into your bios and change the HDD boot sequence?

 

[althebowler]

yes i have

 

[red1776]

I figured you did,had to ask.
when you go into your admin program , what drive does it show as the boot drive? and what letter has it assigned?

 

[althebowler]

the drive with vista on it. drive E;

 

[red1776]

okay, i had what sounds like the same thing happen to me. I brought a HDD with XP on it over to a new build as a storage device, i installed vista on the main drive. my machine would not boot from the vista drive, it would not boot at all without the storage drive at all actually. i would wait for a second opinion on this as i cant be sure that we were in exactly the same boat, and the fix for my situation actually wasn't supposed to make sense. but in my case i re-assigned the drive letter on the boot drive and cleared the CMOS. but again wait for another opinion because when i posted this scenario last year it had some techs scratching their heads.

BTW, the boot drive should be C:\, but mine was doing the same thing.