Comments on: Cable Changes http://www.fr3d.org/blog/cable-changes/ chown -R us ./base Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:54:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Anderton http://www.fr3d.org/blog/cable-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-1919 John Anderton Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:57:29 +0000 #comment-1919 Vista didn't like me connecting a ATA drive after installing windows into a SATA drive. It just wouldn't boot. So I ended up formatting again with the ATA drive connected this time. While booting hence forth I got 2 options. A "Windows Vista" and a certain "Earlier Version of Windows" :S Nothing a little [u]bcdedit[/u] couldn't fix :P I just had to delete the NTLDR entry. The problem at my place was that when I first installed Vista, I only had the SATA connected thus making it Drive 0. I deleted the file BOOTSECT.BAK (It is just a backup : Vista didn’t like me connecting a ATA drive after installing windows into a SATA drive. It just wouldn’t boot. So I ended up formatting again with the ATA drive connected this time.
While booting hence forth I got 2 options. A “Windows Vista” and a certain “Earlier Version of Windows” :S
Nothing a little [u]bcdedit[/u] couldn’t fix :P I just had to delete the NTLDR entry.

The problem at my place was that when I first installed Vista, I only had the SATA connected thus making it Drive 0. I deleted the file BOOTSECT.BAK (It is just a backup :

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