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boot file problem

nn2000

nn2000

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I have two HDDs. An old system was installed on the primary drive. And a new system on the slave drive. Now I want to remove the primary drive and leave the slave drive alone in the case. However the new system cannot start up without the primary drive. How to fix that?
 
First, the slave drive needs the jumper changed to either cable select or master. Second, if this was originally a dual-boot system, you need to have a boot.ini on your root of your "slave" drive (I'm assuming there isn't one if it was dual-boot). For the scenario that your "slave" drive has XP, open notepad and paste the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

...then save as boot.ini to the root of C:
 
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