Hi folks,
I have done quite a bit of searching and testing on this one.  Some people have a 
problem close to mine, and others who have asked in the past few months received 
either incomplete information or no answer at all.

I recently loaded Vista 64 upgrade on a new SATA drive.  I like it, it works for 
me and I now want to uninstall XP Pro on my old IATA drive and use it as a storage 
drive.
Of course I ran into the bootlog problem.  The bootlog is on my old drive.  Vista 
will not let me format the drive with the bootlog on it, and won't allow me to copy 
the boot data from XP.  If I go into XP and copy them myself and put them into Vista, 
vista ignores the info and reboots the same way.  if I unplug the old drive my pc 
doesn't recognize me having ANY installed o/s, and if I try to repair or reinstall 
Vista it just keeps telling me I need to have a 'genuine windows operating system' 
installed. 
Until I plug the IATA back in and we're back to square one.

How do I get those boot files for Vista off of the XP drive and onto my new SATA 
drive without reinstalling both XP Pro and Vista?

Any help regarding this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Benny

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Try open it in  C:\Windows\System32\rstrui.exe

or this vbs script works with XP don't know if with Vista.
copy&paste into Notepad place it on desk change the extension txt to vbs. 
 Open and check if it created respoint..
--------------------------------------------------------------

Set IRP = getobject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore")
strDescription = InputBox("Restore point description: ","My Restore Point")
MYRP = IRP.createrestorepoint (strDescription, 0, 100)

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On Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 9:03 am, bennett floydd wrote:

>Hi folks,

>I have done quite a bit of searching and testing on this one.  Some people have 
a 

>problem close to mine, and others who have asked in the past few months received 

>either incomplete information or no answer at all.

>

>I recently loaded Vista 64 upgrade on a new SATA drive.  I like it, it works for 

>me and I now want to uninstall XP Pro on my old IATA drive and use it as a storage 

>drive.

>Of course I ran into the bootlog problem.  The bootlog is on my old drive.  Vista 

>will not let me format the drive with the bootlog on it, and won't allow me to copy 

>the boot data from XP.  If I go into XP and copy them myself and put them into Vista, 

>vista ignores the info and reboots the same way.  if I unplug the old drive my pc 

>doesn't recognize me having ANY installed o/s, and if I try to repair or reinstall 

>Vista it just keeps telling me I need to have a 'genuine windows operating system' 

>installed. 

>Until I plug the IATA back in and we're back to square one.

>

>How do I get those boot files for Vista off of the XP drive and onto my new SATA 

>drive without reinstalling both XP Pro and Vista?

>

>Any help regarding this is greatly appreciated.

>Thanks!

>Benny 

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Sorry, this wasn't for you.







On Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 10:19 am, alex wrote:

>


>Try open it in  C:\Windows\System32\rstrui.exe

>

>or this vbs script works with XP don't know if with Vista.

>copy&paste into Notepad place it on desk change the extension txt to vbs. 

> Open and check if it created respoint..

>--------------------------------------------------------------

>

>Set IRP = getobject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore")

>strDescription = InputBox("Restore point description: ","My Restore Point")

>MYRP = IRP.createrestorepoint (strDescription, 0, 100)

>

>----------------------------------------------------

> 

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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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That's a new combination. Let me try that one and get back to you. 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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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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What if I reconnect the old IATA drive and do the bootrec /RebuildBcd command again?

Wouldn't it show me all the installations of Windows on both   drives, and then I 
could simply choose Vista, ignoring the other?

The only question I would have here is, how will it show Vista's drive set up?  C:\Windows 
or D:\Windows?

Floydd

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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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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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So far no luck in moving the boolog from the old IATA drive to the SATA drive that Vista resides on. I have listed what I've done in the previous posts. If anyone has an idea of what to try next, I will be greatly appreciative. Thanks! Benny

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