Booting Vista (Home Premium) Problem

[microsvc]

I rebooted today and I was informed the bootmgr is missing. I was able to
boot with the dvd, do a repair and now It's booting, but now I see a folder
called BOOT on my slave drive and bootex.log and bootmgr. I dont see these
files on drive c: nor do I see boot.ini (does vista use it?). Can I just
MOVE the boot folder and the 2 files to c: so I can boot off c:, then delete
whats on my slave drive? Thanks!

 

[MARK SCHON]

I have boot.ini on my vista machine (left over from before I upgraded). It
starts out with the below warnings:

Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.

Therefore, I think it is safe to say that Vista doesn't use boot.ini.

 

[Andy]

I rebooted today and I was informed the bootmgr is missing. I was able to
boot with the dvd, do a repair and now It's booting, but now I see a folder
called BOOT on my slave drive and bootex.log and bootmgr. I dont see these
files on drive c: nor do I see boot.ini (does vista use it?). Can I just
MOVE the boot folder and the 2 files to c: so I can boot off c:, then delete
whats on my slave drive? Thanks!

Those files are normally hidden. If you want to boot from the C drive,
set your bios to boot from that disk.

 

[microsvc]

Hi, Everyone seems to not understand my question. Here goes: After restoring
using the DVD, I see a folder called BOOT on my slave drive and bootex.log
and bootmgr. I dont see these files on drive c:. Can I just MOVE the boot
folder and the 2 files to c: so I can boot off c:, then delete whats on my
slave drive? Thanks!

 

[Michael Palumbo]

Hi, Everyone seems to not understand my question. Here goes: After
restoring
using the DVD, I see a folder called BOOT on my slave drive and bootex.log
and bootmgr. I dont see these files on drive c:. Can I just MOVE the
boot
folder and the 2 files to c: so I can boot off c:, then delete whats on my
slave drive? Thanks!

Just because you're seeing files called "boot" doesn't mean you're booting
from that drive.

Click Start, then right click on Computer, choose Manage. In Computer
Management click Disk Management.

Check the drives, you'll see the Volume (C: D: and so forth) the layout,
type, file system, and the part you really want to look at STATUS. This
will list everything the drive is actively set up for.

On my system, C: is "Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump,
Primary Partition)
D: is "Healthy (Page File, Primary Partition)

As you can see Boot is listed for my C: drive, indication that I'm booting
from the C: drive.

If yours has boot listed on the C: drive, guess what? You're booting from
the C: drive.

Check this before you assume anything. When you did the repair on the drive
it may have simply backed up those files to your D: drive, the fact that you
can see them means they weren't marked hidden by the system. The system
usually marks these hidden so people that don't know what they are won't
delete them (or try to, that is) from the boot drive.

Mic

 

[Michael Palumbo]

Hi, Everyone seems to not understand my question. Here goes: After
restoring
using the DVD, I see a folder called BOOT on my slave drive and bootex.log
and bootmgr. I dont see these files on drive c:. Can I just MOVE the
boot
folder and the 2 files to c: so I can boot off c:, then delete whats on my
slave drive? Thanks!

Oh, and to simply answer your question, if you actually ARE booting from the
D: drive, simply moving those files to the C: drive won't make the C: drive
bootable.

Mic