New Vista Install onto new drive & booting problems

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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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
Click to expand...

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
 
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