Vista Ultimate on partitioned drive w Mac os works if vista on 2nd drive

yes that's how it is with my macpro.. a few months ago i had raid card so i had to install vista on separate drive which was placed in spare optical bay and hooked up via ipass to sata cable...i soon gave up on this cuz i wanted 2nd optical drive but i kept vista on the drive...now i have gotten rid of raid card and by accident was able to install vista on partition with mac os...but only with original vista drive in one of the bays... if i remove that drive and try to boot windows i get a "disc error" message and have to close...it's a real pain cuz i only have 4 drive bays and and vista is on a 250gb..drive...i imagine there is a boot initiation process that is buried in bios somewhere...does anyone know if i can make partioned vista boot without other drive in bay??

hi all...i just fixed it!! i noticed the partitioned drive didn't appear on mac desktop but the other boot drive did...so i ran disk utility and it showed it as not having a valid boot feature...so i booted w win disk, let it load and selected repair...i did this b4 with no luck but this time it came up with indication that "boot manager" was corrupt or missing...so i let it repair and now it works w out help from original boot drive...at least for now

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