one of my crashed and i had to replace the hard drive then i couldnt get
it to accept (run) vista setup so i hooked it up to my other computer
and was able to run the vista setup after that i took the hard drive
back out and put it back in the other computer and it works fine.
however when i put the hard drive back in the secound computer the
computer wont start without putting in the vista cd it says verifying
dmi pool data, then boot from cd.......... then disk boot failure
insert system disk press enter i tried system restore and startup repair
form the vista cd
any


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beiniam

beiniam;953787 Wrote:
one of my crashed and i had to replace the hard drive then i couldnt get
it to accept (run) vista setup so i hooked it up to my other computer
and was able to run the vista setup after that i took the hard drive
back out and put it back in the other computer and it works fine.
however when i put the hard drive back in the secound computer the
computer wont start without putting in the vista cd it says verifying
dmi pool data, then boot from cd.......... then disk boot failure insert
system disk press enter i tried system restore and startup repair form
the vista cd
any

Is the boot order in the bios setup still seeing the optical drive set
as the 1st drive in the boot order? Once the initial setup files are
copied onto the hard drive you have to re-enter the bios to set the hard
drive as first in the order there.

A method for avoiding the need to enter the bios setup when installing
Windows is to leave the hard drive as first and bring up the boot device
menu by using the F1, F8, F12, or other F key assigned to that for the
one time boot session. Upon the initial restart the hard drive then
boots seeing the installation completed.


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Night Hawk

thank you that fixed it


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beiniam