Hi Dan,

It seems to be a an issue with Vista that if IDE drives are installed, it
buggers with writing the bootstrap code to SATA drives. You may want to
check and see if Vista setup wrote the bootloader to one of them instead. It
would explain why running fixmbr/fixboot on the SATA drive didn't do
anything.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]

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> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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>> Hi Dan,
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>> Are there any IDE drives connected? Also, I'd try it without the 2nd SATA
>> drive attached (just unplug the two cables while it's shut down).
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>> Best of Luck,
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>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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> Funny you should ask! Yes, there are 2 ide drives, however they are
> storage only (no os's) so I didn't think they'd matter. I wondered about
> disconnecting the other SATA as well, thanks for the tip.
>
> Dan
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>>> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>> Use VistaBootPRO: [url]http://www.vistabootpro.org/[/url]
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>>> Thanks, I'll give it a try. Still wonder why the boot fixes didn't
>>> take.
>>>
>>> Dan
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