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re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 10:56 am
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Posted by bennett floydd (8 messages posted)


Any one else with some ideas on how to move this bootlog file from my old drive to the new correct drive? Thanks!


On Monday, May 21, 2007 at 8:30 am, bennett floydd wrote:
>To answer my own question;
>
>When I first ran the RebuildBcd tool with both drives attached, it showed 0 Installations
>of windows loaded.
>I tried some other commands at that point out of sheer desperation, as usual.
>ScanOs showed 0 installations loaded.
>FixBoot showed it completed successfully, but what it did I don't know.
>FixMbr also completed successfully.
>
>Now RebuildBcd showed 1 operating system on D:\Windows. I told it to rebuild that
>one and it completed successfully.
>
>Trouble is it rebuilt it on the same old Sata drive and I am STILL at square one!
> I still have a bootlog on the old drive, showing XP on C: and Vista on D:
>
>How do it tell Vista to build a bootlog onto the new SATA drive so that it shows
>Vista on C: and the old IATA drive as D:? Or did Microsoft think of this possibility
>when they created Vista?
>
>Thanks!


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re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (bennett floydd: Monday, May 21, 2007 at 8:30 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (bennett floydd: Sat, May 19, 2007, 9:03 am)
-re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (alex: Sat, May 19, 2007, 10:19 am)
*re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (alex: Sat, May 19, 2007, 10:40 am)
-re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sat, May 19, 2007, 7:17 pm)
*re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (bennett floydd: Sun, May 20, 2007, 7:30 am)
-re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (bennett floydd: Mon, May 21, 2007, 7:45 am)
-re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (bennett floydd: Mon, May 21, 2007, 7:58 am)
-re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (bennett floydd: Mon, May 21, 2007, 8:30 am)
*re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (bennett floydd: Tue, May 22, 2007, 10:56 am)
*re: Removing XP after Vista install on 2nd drive (bennett floydd: Tue, May 22, 2007, 11:11 am)
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