Problem with boot-up.

[HSK]

Hi! I've done something, I thought it wouldn't cause a problem, but it has -

my pc has two hard drives, one 500gb C: drive, with the OS, and partitions for other stuff. and one other 80gb drive labelled as D: - i took all the stuff of D: (because i want to remove it soon for another bigger drive), and i formatted the D: drive using another disk manager (not in vista, but booting it off a CD)....

now it's telling me BOOTMGR is missing, when i attempted to boot vista? I'm guessing there was something on D: drive, even though it looked empty? any ways i can resolve this? i don't wanna lose any data of the C: drive.



thanks for any suggestions!

[HSK]

ahh wait, let me find the vista installation disc, that must have a repair tool on it...

[HSK]

argh, tried the vista disc, it doesn't even pick up the OS as being installed when i go to repair - asking me to load the driver for the disk, but all of C:'s contents is there...not sure where the disk drivers are located - i think this is because AHCI sata was enabled in bios and vista was installed that way, so it's not recognising it now...

[Craig321]

yes, it does. boot up with the vista cd and select repair.

edit

you posted before me

[HSK]

ahh i got it working, but i hope it aint just stuck it back on D: again.

i think the way i should of installed everything at the start was just with the one main drive connected, and then plugged in the other after installation...because they are both set as active.