Weird boot issue

[jnagrodski]

So i am having an issue with vista booting correctly. Every time it boots it always says Windows Vista Setup. Now i have looked in bcdedit and it doesnt say anything about Vista setup being there. This is where things get a little wierd.

If i have my RC1 disk in vista boots fine, but if i dont have my RC1 disk in vista doest boot at all. I get an error msg about vista not being able to find winload.exe.

there is what comes up in bcdedit. now the only thing i can think of is that on the boot manager it is that it is looking for device D: now is it possible that it is looking for my dvd drive to get the correct files instead of my hard drives? if so how do i go about changing it? or how do i change that one line just to give it a try?

[fizban2]

check system32 for winload.exe, that is a really wierd issue

[Biohead]

Did you have any other operating systems installed previously?

If not I would reinstall Vista cleanly and see if that rectifies the problem.