[irvdk]

I installed C:\Vista and D:\WinXP as a dual boot setup using two SATA drives and EasyBCD 1.52. Everything was fine and I continued to use them both until I felt everything was stable. I decided it was time to remove the training wheels (XP dual boot) using EasyBCD 1.52. I rebooted and everything was fine.
Now I wanted to format D:\. Right clicking on the drive and selected Format it would not allow me to do it. I then proceeded to delete everything on the drive. I can delete everything, but Boot and Bootmgr. It tells me that they are in use. To prove this I unplugged the D:\ drive and the system would not boot.
This is what is showing in EasyBCD:
Can someone tell me what is wrong and how to fix it?




Irv

[spdabbs]

When you dual boot Vista & XP, the system initially boots from the XP drive. This means that without the XP drive, Vista won't boot. Not sure how to get around it, but maybe booting from your Vista disk and selecting the "Repair" option could fix it?

[irvdk]

I've done that about 10 times thinking that would fix it, b ut it won't. Maybe that I am going to have to leave the xp partition as the boot partition.
Thanks

[Blueyonder]

Boot up again with the Visa DVD and try using the option to fix
boot/startup