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Installation went fine. It automatically rebooted the computer several times
during the install. However, after the first running, I shut down the
computer and later when I turned it back on. It wouldn't reboot. Said it was
missing a Boot Manager???

Any Ideas would be helpfull.

Running older gigabyte MB Ga-7VAXP, Siig Sata Controller, Seagate 300MB Sata
drive.

Update advisor said no problems with hardware.

thanks
Ray
 
Do you have more than one drive on your computer.

If you have more than one drive you might have to go into your BIOS and
change the boot order.

NIK
 
Tried that didn't work. Have had XP on that computer before and never got
that error msg.

Thanks

Ray
 
You might try using your Vista DVD and doing a Repair of the startup. Some
here have said they had to do it up to 3 times before they were successful.
 
Problem solved. Ran repair. clicked on details. Said it booted to HDD 0
partition F:

Interestingly, HDD 0 is an unpartitioned IDE drive. Vista recognized the IDE
drive as HDD 0 and the SATA drive as HDD 1, Local Drive C:, SCSI Volume D:
and SCSI volume E:.

I installed on HDD1 Drive C: But Vista said it booted to HDD0 Partition F:
Where did it get that?

I think there is a problem with Vista identifying drives correctly.

I went and changed the boot order in setup from SCSI to HDD 0 and it boots
fine.

Ray
 
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