Hi all! I'm New to this forum and Vista and hope you fine people can help. I bought a rig second hand. The silly fellow forgot to wipe out his previous install of Vista. The rig came with one 250gb (D:) and one 80gb (C:) SATA HD's. I backed up quite a bit of info to the 80gb drive for use later. I placed the Vista Home Premium disc in, formated the larger (D:) drive and installed Vista. Everything seemed ok until it was time to reboot without the Vista disc. I get a BOOT MANAGER MISSING error after any restart. If i let it boot from Vista Disc, Windows works fine. From looking at a few tech forums, I believe Vista installed the boot manager to the wrong HD. When I tried using the Vista System Recovery tools, It shows windows being installed on drive (D:). Using the Vista disc to boot and looking at my desktop it shows Windows installed on (C:)!!! I'm not computer illiterate but I need someone to walk me thru this one like I am... :(
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