Adding an SSD to desktop: how to make bootable?

[millergd]

Newbie question.

I recently bought an Intel X-25M to be intended as a boot disk to supplement the 640GB conventional HDD on my HP Pavilion Elite e9105z.

I formatted the drive using the Vista Disk Manager, set the X-25M as the boot drive in BIOS, but received an error message saying "BOOTMGR..." was missing.

Is there a simple way to make the X-25M bootable so Windows Vista (and Windows 7 in due time) resides on there?

 

[RetiredChief]

Prior to formating the SSD did you make create a Active partition. Any way the simplist way is to remove the partition. Disconnect the 640 gig drive so that the SSD is the only drive. Just treat it like any other HDD. Let vista find it and create the active partition during install. finish your vista install then reconnect your 640. ENJOY IT