Vista = blargh

[forrehmmnd]

Ok, so i got vista a little while ago (4 months) and installed it, had no problems, was enjoying it. so yesterday i decide to reformat just to get rid of stuff im too lazy to delete. Vista installed just fine and dandy and now its being a pain. it wont boot unless the vista dvd is in the drive and the first boot priority in the bios is cdrom. and ideas.

 

[Motley]

Did you re-register the fresh install of vista?

 

[forrehmmnd]

no i have not, it hasnt asked me to. if this helps, its the oem version.

 

[RangerSVT]

I'm trying to understand this a little better, let me see if I got this straight.

Vista installed just fine and dandy and now its being a pain.

OK, what is the "pain" in relations to Vista installing "just fine and dandy"?

it wont boot unless the vista dvd is in the drive and the first boot priority in the bios is cdrom. and ideas.

Maybe if you switch the boot priority to Hard-Disk it'll boot into Vista instead of the CDRom.

 

[forrehmmnd]

Thats just it, it refuses to boot from the hard disk. I can boot it through the cdrom and on to the desktop and i can take the cd out and itll be fine. It just gvs me an error when i try to boot from the hdd. like "invalid boot disk, please replace disk and press any key" or something like that. the pain is it wont boot without booting with the dvd in the drive.

 

[Motley]

re-install, or at least run a repair on the boot partition...