Okay, here's what happened;

Disconnected the IATA drive and Bios automaticallys showed the remaining SATA drive 
as the sole bootable hard drive.

I started from the Vista DVD and it did not prompt me to press any key, which is 
the first sign that it does not see an operating system on the pc.  When I got into 
the Vista repair tool it did not show Vista as an operating system. (note; when the 
old IATA drive IS attached the repair tool shows vista on 'D' drive, not on 'C' drive 
as it appears from within Vista, so the bootlog on the old IATA still shows XP on 
C)

I went to the command prompt and tried various keywords.  All but one simply replied 
'no elements found.'
The one that did not was bootrec /RebuildBcd.
That command found Vista on the SATA drive, listing as C:\Windows.  It asked if I 
wanted to add that installation to the drive, with Y or N or A for all.  No matter 
what letter I choose the answer comes back 'no elements found'.

So it  will not allow me to fix the bootlog with the old drive disconnected.

Any ideas?

Thanks!






On Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 7:17 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:

>1.  Completely disconnect the PATA disk from data and power.

>

>2.  Set the SATA as the boot disk in the BIOS.

>

>3.  Start the computer from the Vista DVD and then follow the instructions in this 

>MS KB article:  

>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us

>

>4.  Try startup repair 

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