Swimming_Bird Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) I think there's some issue with the boot sector, i have a feeling it's tossing it on some other HDD. Is there any way I can determine the location of the boot sector? I have my system drive on a built in SATA controller and 2 storage drives on a normal IDE controller. The only way i can boot is if i set it to boot from the CD first and dont press a button to enter setup. Edited January 13, 2007 by Swimming_Bird
Subcodec Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I'm curious to this solution also. I've had this exact problem in the past and now I have a problem getting Vista to boot on certain configurations on my current setup.Here is one example: I have 3 different RAID controllers available in my PC...nvRAID, Silicon's 3114 controller, and a Highpoint 1740 controller. The first 2 are onboard and the latter is a PCI card. I have 4 drives connected to the Highpoint controller in a RAID 5. No matter what, this stays since it has all my backups, media, etc on it. Now orginally, I had the other 3 drives conncected to the nvRAID controller in a RAID 0 and I wanted to boot off of that. Windows XP would install and run just fine with that configuration, but no luck with Vista. I would get as far as going through the intial setup and the copying of files, but after the first reboot, it would run the the BIOS screens and then just sit there, not booting to anything. I did have it going at one point (not sure what I did different), but Vista said that the one drive needed to go through checkdisk. After it went through the checkdisk, it stopped booting again.Does all of this have to do with the way partitions are setup and what is or isn't set active...or even which partitions are primary and extended. I've also always wondered why Windows always seems to assign drive letter C: to the onboard IDE primary even though I may use a RAID controller and am booting to that.Hope I'm not asking too many questions. Is there somewhere I can maybe read more about this and get a better understanding of the way a system boots and the way Windows mounts drives and partitions??
Swimming_Bird Posted January 13, 2007 Author Posted January 13, 2007 I guess the main question we're both asking, how do you go about moving the boot sectors?
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