hi,

i just installed vista rc1 build 5600 onto a new hard drive that i bought.. all of my old stuff is on windows mce 2005, a 200gb sata hdd.. the new drive with the rc1 is on a 320gb sata hdd... they boot up fine individually if i shutdown and plug in each sata.. but how can i set it up so that i have an option to boot the one i want at startup?? cause that would be so convenient.. thanks!!

I don't know how you went about installing Vista, but what you should have done was had the 2nd HDD connected & ready to go, booted into MCE, then popped in the Vista CD & directed it to install on the 2nd HDD. It would have created a dual boot setup & you would be greeted by a boot menu every time you restart your system

ohhhhhh... i had them put in separately... like i disconnected my main hdd first and then just connected the new dd.. hmmm ill go try that now..

Have you tried Startup Repair from WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment)?

Hookup the two SATA disks the way you want them setup and follow these steps:

0. Boot into Vista installation DVD
1. Choose your language settings and click Next
2. Click Repair your computer
3. Choose your operating system and click Next.
4. This should bring up System Recovery Options.
5. Click on Startup Repair

Startup Repair should now start diagnosing your system to identify the root cause (we know that anyway) of the failure. Once it has identified the root cause, it would automatically start repairing your computer. If you are curious to know what Startup Repair did, you can click on the details link and see which tests Startup Repair ran to diagnose the problem.

After Startup Repair has finished the repairs, click Finish to reboot your computer.

Your computer should boot normally into Vista.

Goodluck!