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Geek Culture / computer problem

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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 22:37
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This one has me a little confused.

Drive A: Windows 2000 (IDE 0, master)
Drive B: Windows Vista (IDE 0, slave)

In my bios, if I set drive B as the first harddrive in the list and set it as the first bootable drive then Win2k loads. If I set it up to boot from drive A instead (the real Win2k drive) it says "bootmgr not found", which basically says its trying to load vista but can't. If I try to swap the drives physical locations on the IDE then I can't get either to boot.

Any ideas how this happened? Or better yet, how do I fix this? I don't mind wiping the Vista drive clean but not before I know it won't prevent the other from booting.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Location: Bognor Regis, UK
Posted: 28th Oct 2006 22:44
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Sounds like the boot manager has installed itself onto Drive B, leaving Drive A without a manager... Not sure how to fix - but thats my 2 cents...

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