MVP or someone please help! Boot problem!

[Guest]

I have a problem. I have two hard drives. One has Windows Vista Ultimate
installed (drive c) and the other one has all my personal files and it´s the
system drive (drive d). Now my second disk broke and Vista can´t boot because
that disk was the system drive. Last time I saw the Disk Management
configuration the drive C (Vista) had this configuration:

Boot, Active, Primary Partition.

The D: drive had:

System, Pagefile, Active, Primary Partition


Windows Vista is still installed in the first disk wich works ok but the OS
can´t boot because the broked disk was the "system drive".

Please help me! How can I recover the system without reformatting and
reinstalling all?

 

[Dustin Harper]

You might try booting from the CD and doing a repair. It should see that it
is installed and repair that install without having to reformat or
reinstall.

 

[Kerry Brown]

I have a problem. I have two hard drives. One has Windows Vista Ultimate
installed (drive c) and the other one has all my personal files and it´s
the
system drive (drive d). Now my second disk broke and Vista can´t boot
because
that disk was the system drive. Last time I saw the Disk Management
configuration the drive C (Vista) had this configuration:

Boot, Active, Primary Partition.

The D: drive had:

System, Pagefile, Active, Primary Partition


Windows Vista is still installed in the first disk wich works ok but the
OS
can´t boot because the broked disk was the "system drive".

Please help me! How can I recover the system without reformatting and
reinstalling all?

Try a Startup Repair

http://vistasupport.mvps.org/vista_dvd_repair_your_computer_options.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys. That solved my problem.

 

[Scott]

I have a problem. I have two hard drives. One has Windows Vista Ultimate
installed (drive c) and the other one has all my personal files and it´s the
system drive (drive d).

Your system drive is the drive *without* Windows on it?
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[Guest]

NT, which Vista, XP, 2000 are part of, call the partition with the boot
files and partition tables the System drive while the partition with the
Windows folder is called the Boot drive.

 

[Guest]

"NT, which Vista, XP, 2000 are part of, call the partition with the boot
files and partition tables the System drive while the partition with the
Windows folder is called the Boot drive."


Exactly, so Scott, yes, I had the “system†partition in the second hard
drive and the “boot†partition in the first one. Many people get confused
because they think that the system partition it´s the one with the “WINDOWSâ€
and “Program Files†folders. No. That’s the boot partition. The system
partition it´s the one with the necessary files to load the OS. If you have
only one hard drive with one single partition, then that´s your Boot and
system partition.

 

[Scott]

"NT, which Vista, XP, 2000 are part of, call the partition with the boot
files and partition tables the System drive while the partition with the
Windows folder is called the Boot drive."


Exactly, so Scott, yes, I had the “system” partition in the second hard
drive and the “boot” partition in the first one. Many people get confused
because they think that the system partition it´s the one with the “WINDOWS”
and “Program Files” folders. No. That’s the boot partition. The system
partition it´s the one with the necessary files to load the OS. If you have
only one hard drive with one single partition, then that´s your Boot and
system partition.

I learned something new today.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.