Repair startup fails to show windows install

[Dale]

Hello
I am running Vista 64 Ultimate. Actually quite pleased with it...my biggest
problems are user induced.

Heres what I would like to fix:
I have two hard drives viewed from within windows as C:\opsys and H:\data2,
these drive letters are not the same when viewed in diskpart, C:\data2,
D:\opsys. At one point Vista was installed on the data2 drive, however I
moved it using a third party tool to its own drive. For whatever reason,
the bootmanager remained on the data2 drive. I have since fixed this as
well, C:\opsys is the system, boot drive...however it continues to show in
diskpart as the 'D:\' drive. I'm guessing this is the reason when I go to
repair startup, there are no windows installs found. Oddly enough the
system boots fine, despite EasyBCD reporting the boot manager is on the
'H:\' drive (there are no boot files or folders (hidden or otherwise) on
that drive).

How do I get the repair startup to see my install, how do I get the drive
letters to align both from within windows and diskpart? I've reset the
drive letters in diskpart but they don't seem to stick? I've use EasyBCD to
reset and rebuild the boot files...tried an in place vista upgrade which
failed twice...all to no avail.

Stumped...I didn't want to do a reinstall...but its looking that might be
the way I have to go.

 

[John Barnes]

For starters, you will want to make your Vista drive the system drive. It
must therefore be the first hard drive in boot priority in the BIOS and the
partition must be the active partition on that drive. You should then be
able to run startup repair finding the Vista operating system.