[Xaldyn]

Hi, I recently built a computer, and installed vista and it worked fine, until yesterday when i tried connecting my old hard drives to the new computer to see if i could salvage anything from them. Everything was fine for one of the hard drives, however when I put in my other hard drive and started up the computer again, it instead loaded up on the Windows XP that was installed on it instead, and wouldnt let me get onto my desktop from the hard drive. i tried changing the boot sequence setup, but it still went to XP. I took out the hard drive with XP, but now my computer tells me to reconnect the hard drive with vista, and wont go farther then that. I tried putting in the Vista installation disk, thinking i just had to reinstall Vista, and it says it loads up the files, however its stuck on the loading thing for Vista, i left it on all night and it didnt get anywhere. Anyone have any ideas for what i can do? any help is appreciated.
Cheers,

[Mike0001]

Originally Posted by Xaldyn

Hi, I recently built a computer, and installed vista and it worked fine, until yesterday when i tried connecting my old hard drives to the new computer to see if i could salvage anything from them. Everything was fine for one of the hard drives, however when I put in my other hard drive and started up the computer again, it instead loaded up on the Windows XP that was installed on it instead, and wouldnt let me get onto my desktop from the hard drive. i tried changing the boot sequence setup, but it still went to XP. I took out the hard drive with XP, but now my computer tells me to reconnect the hard drive with vista, and wont go farther then that. I tried putting in the Vista installation disk, thinking i just had to reinstall Vista, and it says it loads up the files, however its stuck on the loading thing for Vista, i left it on all night and it didnt get anywhere. Anyone have any ideas for what i can do? any help is appreciated.
Cheers,

Don't have Vista, but there must be a repair option there? If so, you need to repair the boot sector and possibly partition table. In XP it is done in a repair console, command driven.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial148.html

Did you connect the Vista and XP disks both jumpered as master by any chance? Your Vista disk may have been trashed.

[Xaldyn]

Theres kind of a problem, my computer does boot up from the CD drive, it does it automatically and doesnt say the "press a key to boot from cd", and it says the "Windows is loading files..." and when it does the "screen stating that windows is loading" (im quoting from the link you sent me by the way", but it gets stuck there, i cant get past it. In fact, whats strange is just a minute ago I took out both hard drives, and turned on the computer, and it was able to load the Vista disk perfectly, it was fine (although obviously i couldnt get past the where do you want to install Vista too seeings as there wasnt anything plugged in). Whats also strange is when i go to the bios, it actually does detect the hard drive with Vista, however it keeps telling me to reconnect the hard drive when i turn on the computer and try and get it to load from that.

[Mike0001]

ok, do you have the patience to reinstall Vista?

If you jumper the XP drive as master, and Vista as slave, you should be able to reformat the Vista disk. At the same time, whilst in XP, blank all account passwords.

Now swap the jumpering and boot from the CD. You should now be able to reinstall Vista.

Believe me, if the XP disk is jumpered as slave, it will not boot XP, so I think that is all that has happened. Moreover, the XP disk should appear as a new drive letter and your files will be readable provided you have blanked the password on any accounts.