Booting prob w/ 2 HDs

[ZickZJ]

Quick summary, originally had two hard drives set up with one having Windows 2K & XP and the other one with just XP.
Drive 1=Win2k, XP 20GB
Drive 2=XP 80GB

I used to get a boot screen for all three operating systems.
I just got a new ABIT NF7-S, 2600+, and Memory. But before putting that together I used the old system to delete and reformat Drive 1. Put together the new system and installed a fresh copy of XP onto drive 1, but I left drive 2 alone.

Now the problem is when it boots up, it does not give me a choice of which operating system to boot to. It just boots to drive 1 only. I have tried unplugging drive 1 and setting drive 2 to master and booting but it gives me an error that its missing the NTLDR. I have tried recopying the NTLDR back on to it but no luck. If I have both drive plugged in, I can still access most of Drive 2 but I can't access my administrative folders, I get an access is denied. I can't figure out how to gain access to these folders. 😕

 

[altonb1]

You need to edit your boot.ini file. Unfortunately, not sure what to tell you as far as what settings to specifically put there, but disk0 is your primary hard drive and disk1 will be the 2nd hard drive. You need to give boot.ini the option to select the other operating systems, which it is not doing now.

 

[ZickZJ]

Well I think I may have figured out my access denied problem. Also I found an article relating to my booting error, I accidently marked drive 2 as active in order to gain access and I guess there can't be two active partition at the same time. I'm gonna try running FDISK and unmarking active or run the recovery console and use the FIXBOOT command.