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[Guest]

Installation went fine. It automatically rebooted the computer several times
during the install. However, after the first running, I shut down the
computer and later when I turned it back on. It wouldn't reboot. Said it was
missing a Boot Manager???

Any Ideas would be helpfull.

Running older gigabyte MB Ga-7VAXP, Siig Sata Controller, Seagate 300MB Sata
drive.

Update advisor said no problems with hardware.

thanks
Ray

 

[niknik1971]

Do you have more than one drive on your computer.

If you have more than one drive you might have to go into your BIOS and
change the boot order.

NIK

 

[Guest]

Tried that didn't work. Have had XP on that computer before and never got
that error msg.

Thanks

Ray

 

[John Barnes]

You might try using your Vista DVD and doing a Repair of the startup. Some
here have said they had to do it up to 3 times before they were successful.

 

[Guest]

Problem solved. Ran repair. clicked on details. Said it booted to HDD 0
partition F:

Interestingly, HDD 0 is an unpartitioned IDE drive. Vista recognized the IDE
drive as HDD 0 and the SATA drive as HDD 1, Local Drive C:, SCSI Volume D:
and SCSI volume E:.

I installed on HDD1 Drive C: But Vista said it booted to HDD0 Partition F:
Where did it get that?

I think there is a problem with Vista identifying drives correctly.

I went and changed the boot order in setup from SCSI to HDD 0 and it boots
fine.

Ray