Get BCD onto my other hdd

[Guest]

My problem is an interesting one. I downloaded vista and installed it on an
extra IDE hdd, I liked it. So I decided I would install it on my SATA drive
and try using it for awhile. Like so many others out there i experienced the
80070017 copy error during install. Eventually, I ended up putting the IDE
drive back in as a master and installing to the SATA drive from Vista. Here
is where my problem comes in, The BCD stores are all on the IDE drive, not
the SATA drive, so when I take the IDE drive out, I can no longer boot. If
theres a way to change the actual BCD files to my other drive I'd like to
hear it.

 

[Guest]

I was able to fix the problem by copying bootmgr to the sata drive, it then
told me to insert the vista cd and repair startup files.

 

[Bones]

Thanks for posting your results, I was kind of curious how to do this
myself. Where is the boot folder? I'm wondering if it was on the sata drive
the whole time, did you copy it to the sata drive, or did startup repair
replace it?