Startup Repair doesn't see an operating system

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J Englund

I did a clean install of Vista to a new hard drive a couple of weeks back.
Because I forgot to designate the new drive as the boot drive in my BIOS, I
ended up with the boot manager on my other hard drive.

I would like to move the boot manager to the same hard drive as Vista. One
way that was suggested to me was to disconnect the boot-manager drive and
then do a Startup Repair on the Vista drive.

I've tried this, but when I get to the stage of "Select the operating system
you want to repair, and then click Next," there is no operating system
listed in the dialog's list box. At first I wondered if there was a problem
with the drive being an SATA drive, but when I click the Find Driver button
I have no problem browsing the drive. (The only other drive connected is my
DVD drive, by the way.)

Does anyone out there have a suggestion? (Could it be that I need to
designate the Vista drive as the active partition before rebooting and going
through the above process? I can't think of anything else to try at this
point.)

Thanks in advance,
-John-
 
Thanks for the advice, Chad. I actually looked over the vistabootpro site
earlier, but didn't get the impression that it could move the boot manager
(as opposed to editing it). Anyway, I'll check it out.

-John-
 
From looking around the VistaBootPro forums, it seems that it won't move the
boot files for you. However, in reading over some of the postings, I was
able to learn what I needed to do.
 
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