How to fix boot?

[Freonor]

Hi!

I've installed vista on my new raid0 conifg just fine, but when i removed my old HD it won't boot. Says it's missing winload.exe. How do i get it to just boot from my raid0?

[Freonor]

Update: Ive marked the raid0 partition with vista as active and i unplug the old system disc and i get bootmgr missing. Tried to run the vista dvd and it said fixed the boot bla bla bla... Still same error..

[audiofreak]

If you installed Vista on RAID0 volume, while the old HDD was connected to SATA port 0, it most likely wrote all of its boot files there.

As you cannot just copy C:\Boot folder (because it has some locked files), best bet is to reinstall without the old HDD attached.

Alternatively, if you tried to fix it using Repair option from a DVD and bootmgr is missing you may try to copy it over from the old HDD, perhaps it will work.

[Freonor]

I fixed it. Not sure exactly which of the things i did made the difference. I copied both boot folders reinstalled raid0 drivers and used the vista dvd startup repair. Works fine now.

[Jamesrt2004]

next time to fix the bootmgr is missing.. do this

Make sure your Vista disk has a ... *E*\boot .... folder... if it doesnt theres a recovery boot disk on the net which is ~125MB roughly which is handy as it works for windows 7 too...


if it does go into the repair section and choose CMD

type "bootrec.exe /fixmbr"
"x:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force" (this is ALWAYS X dont try change it to go to E or C etc... just type.... x:\boot....)
"del c\boot\bcd"
"bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd" (maybe "/rebuild bcd")

et voila :)

MAKE SURE IT HAS THE BOOT FOLDER ON THE DISK THOUGH

took me like 8 hours to figure that i didnt have it haha