How to change the boot Hard drive?

Yes this is what I have tried to search for..

I have 2 hard drive in the PC, I run Vista Ultimate SP1 genuine, and all was fine for a long time, then I tried Windows 7, installing this on the 2nd HDD, fine but then deleted it, have re formatted the drive the windows 7 was in... since then on start up I must hit F8 and select the Vista HDD, or the screen comes up black with insert OS disk written on the top.....

Press DEL on start up and go to boot order it shows the 2nd HDD as No 1, so I highlight the 2nd Drive [shows as No 2] which is in fact 'C' drive and click F10 [save & exit] but it will not save as No 1

I'm getting old and cannot remember how to do, OK it is not a bit problem as I have been using the F8 to select the Boot order for months

The Vista is in C drive on a ST 350GB which I want as No 1......... have 2 partitions 'C' & 'D'

the other drive is WD 640GB I want as No 2.......... have 2 partitions 'L' & 'M'

E. F & G are 3 DVD drives

Try downloading EasyBCD from http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 and reinstall the Vista bootloader.

In EasyBCD go to Manage Bootloader, select Reinstall Vista Bootloader and click Write MBR.

Edit: You can find more steps here if the above doesn't work after a reboot. http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Reco...er+with+EasyBCD

Edited August 12, 200916 yr by surface

Only used 7 virtualised but I'd suspect that it installs an OS boot call in the loader function on C, so if you just deleted this may still be in place. IIRC there is a remove option from within Vista [start->Control Panel->Advanced->Startup Recovery->Settings-> Default OS] If you only deleted 7 this may be the source of your conflict.

Regards

/edit mad typist strikes again/

Edited August 12, 200916 yr by A_Traveller

edit boot.ini

^ IIRC boot.ini does not exist in Vista the equivalent is Boot Configuration Data which is accessed through the dialogue I posted earlier or one can search for BCDEDIT which is a command line editor for the data set.

Regards

^ IIRC boot.ini does not exist in Vista the equivalent is Boot Configuration Data which is accessed through the dialogue I posted earlier or one can search for BCDEDIT which is a command line editor for the data set.

Regards

Do a search for msconfig, run it and choose the boot pane. You will then be able to delete the one you don't need

This Free little program helped me with boot! when I deleted Win7

Easy BCD