New Vista Install onto new drive & booting problems

[tartan_monster]

Hi

Just done a clean install onto a new drive, finally upgraded from Xp to
Vista. I wired in my new hard drive & installed Vista to it, when I restart
computer I get the choice to boot from Xp from my old C drive or Vista from
my drive (D-drive), all good so far.

Copied across all my data onto D-drive, then removed the old C-drive
expecting that the system would now boot from Vista on D-drive but...no
dice...I get a prompt for a boot disk.

Only way I can start the computer is to place the old C-drive back in the
tower case, have tried a variety of configs making the old C-drive the slave
drive, etc, but without luck.

Any ideas ? Using two Seagate drives + Ultra ATA connectors. must be
something fairly fundamental.

All help greatly appreciated !

Cheers

 

[Mick Murphy]

Pull out the old Drive, boot from the Vista DVD, and do a Startup repair from
it to the new Drive where you have Vista installed.

 

[tartan_monster]

Hi Mick,

Thanks for the reply, no luck. After running the Startup repair the log told
me the "Partition table does not have valid system partition".

Don't know what happened here as I partitioned the drive before doing any
install on it.

Guess this means I have to re-install completely ? Rather annoying as the
Vista software I have is actually an upgrade package so I'll have to install
XP first then Vista...

Any other ideas ?

Cheers

 

[tartan_monster]

Hi again,

Just found a very similar thread as below, no resolution seemed to be
forthcoming with this issue:-

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/560729-system-partition-startup-error.html

Deary me...

 

[andy]

Hi Mick,

Thanks for the reply, no luck. After running the Startup repair the log told
me the "Partition table does not have valid system partition".

Don't know what happened here as I partitioned the drive before doing any
install on it.

Guess this means I have to re-install completely ? Rather annoying as the
Vista software I have is actually an upgrade package so I'll have to install
XP first then Vista...

Any other ideas ?

Cheers

First run Disk Management, and mark the primary partition on the
D-drive as active.
Then remove the C-drive, and follow steps 2 through 15 at