WHy won't it boot?

merlinxi · Feb 3, 2007, 12:07 PM

I installed my Vista on my other harrd drive, and when it boots it says "bootmanager missing." If I recall I have to make the drive bootable, what program does this?

Partition magic right?

**temeteus82** · Feb 3, 2007, 12:19 PM

Vista's install should install boot loader automatically to the master boot record... Did you unplug the other hard drive before you installed Vista?

ZeroOne · Feb 3, 2007, 12:20 PM

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merlinxi · Feb 3, 2007, 12:21 PM

No I figured it out. The partition is not active on the drive I just used Paritition Magic, forgot all about that. I have not installed an operating system on a seperate drive in months.

No I didn't unplug the other drives. I don't want to hurt XP. I still don't trust Vista.

**temeteus82** · Feb 3, 2007, 12:32 PM

I see... You might find take a look of this : http://www.vistabootpro.org/

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merlinxi The Paranoid Cook Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 655 Rep Power: 0	WHy won't it boot? I installed my Vista on my other harrd drive, and when it boots it says "bootmanager missing." If I recall I have to make the drive bootable, what program does this? Partition magic right? __________________ 700 Watt Toughpower Cable Management Power supply -- Asus P55 LE Motherboard -- Intel Core i7 860 2.8GHZ Quad Core -- 6Gb Dominator Ram DD3 8 Latency Timings -- Windows 7 64bit -- Gigabyte GTX470 Superclocked Video Card -- 1.5 TB Hard drive, 1TB hard drive, 250GB Hard drive, and a partridge in a pear tree.

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Feb 3, 2007, 12:21 PM	Thread Starter #4
merlinxi The Paranoid Cook Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 655 Rep Power: 0	No I figured it out. The partition is not active on the drive I just used Paritition Magic, forgot all about that. I have not installed an operating system on a seperate drive in months. No I didn't unplug the other drives. I don't want to hurt XP. I still don't trust Vista. __________________ 700 Watt Toughpower Cable Management Power supply -- Asus P55 LE Motherboard -- Intel Core i7 860 2.8GHZ Quad Core -- 6Gb Dominator Ram DD3 8 Latency Timings -- Windows 7 64bit -- Gigabyte GTX470 Superclocked Video Card -- 1.5 TB Hard drive, 1TB hard drive, 250GB Hard drive, and a partridge in a pear tree.