Vista Home Premium 64 wont boot after new video card

Hey barman,

I'll check the physical connections. I did uninstall the old drivers
b4 installing this new card.

The weird thing about this is that I can browse my HDD's and see all my
files and what not. Just the windows repair does not list my windows
vista installed on my one HDD.

Do i have the change my bios so it boots directly from the DVD b4 it
reads my HDD?


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BigZed

Hi BiZed

> Do i have the change my bios so it boots directly from the DVD b4 it
> reads my HDD?

Yes unless you have a key to switch built into the bios to select for
each boot (mine has the F10 key which brings up a boot dialogue)

> The weird thing about this is that I can browse my HDD's and see all my
> files and what not. Just the windows repair does not list my windows
> vista installed on my one HDD.

If you can see the files from the missing install it would suggest that
the boot manager is corrupted...

'Vista’s System Recovery Console - BestTechie Forums'
(http://www.besttechie.net/forums/Vis...le-t12840.html)


....take a look at this link and see if anything there can help


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barman58

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Another update; my windows has loaded and im now installing the drivers
for the new video card.

Ive changed my boot priority back to "normal" (HDD, DVD, removable).

After all this i'll restart...hopefully everything works out.

Cant believe I had the SATA cords switched :P


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BigZed

Hi Bigzed

It's probably too late to say just try the repair options first bu
hopefully things are looking goo

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barman5

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Hey Barman

Ok so now im back into windows, new drivers are installed an
everyhting seems to be working fine

But I do have one problem; When i boot i get the same message a
before "Disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter

when i put in my home edition 64 disk it starts to load...BUT then m
windows loads like normal after that

I never get to the "vista set up screen" it just loads right into m
OS

Little odd, do you know how i can get around this? so it just load
like normal

I have set my Bios back to HDD, Disk, then removeabl

Thanks

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BigZed

Hi BigZed

Glad to hear that you are getting there arty

I have heard of the problem where the DVD was required to boot but no
used as is your case. In other cases the problem was caused by a
incorrect entry in the vista BCD where somehow this was pointing a fil
location to the DVD location when the system found the the file the boo
continued normally. this appears to be what is happening in your case
if you download and install Easy BCD this will allow you to edit th
details of the bootloader to correct the erro

'Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies
(http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

When you have downloaded and installed you should be able to use th
advanced tools to correct the error (make sure you use the program t
backup your current settings before you do anything!! )

Full instructions (and a lot more information), can be found at th
Wiki ..

'EasyBCD Documentation Home - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki
(http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBC...mentation+Home

you may want to have a look at the forum there as is a lot of goo
information there to

Hopefully with a little bit more work you will get the system ho
you want it to be. The final part of getting it all back may get
llittle technical but if you follow the information on the site I'm sur
it's possibl

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barman5

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Or do I hit the "upgrade windows" instead

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BigZed

Hey Barman

So i think (keeping fingers crossed) i figured it out. I have tw
HDD's C Volume (vista) was on sata 4 and D Volume (backup) was on Sat
3. So when windows loaded the volumes were reversed...so i tcouldn
find vista

Im reparing now....is that all i have to do

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BigZed