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Vista not booting up from IDE Drive

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Name: dismeltn
Date: February 25, 2008 at 05:35:48 Pacific
Subject: Vista not booting up from IDE Drive
OS: Vista Ult
CPU/Ram: Intel Pentium D CPU 3.00
Comment:

I am running Vista Ult, motherboard is gigbytes P35-DS3L, Intel Pentium D CPU 3.00ghz. I have two IDE hdd, which are western digital SCSI drives. My third drive is Maxtor ATA drive. Vista is installed on IDE drive. My issue is booting up, Vista want to access the hdd that Vista is not installed on. How can i correct this issue, have the system to see the IDE drive with Vista on it as the main drive?


Troy Dismel


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Name: mavis007
Date: February 25, 2008 at 06:03:04 Pacific
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... as pc boots-up tapping F8 key

...select "safe mode command prompt" [ENTER]

... type: bcdedit /enum [press ENTER]

... Post the contents here

Grrrr
wat do I know?
... got brain freeze


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