• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Changing the Windows XP boot drive -=HELP!=-

M

Mitzi

Diamond Member
I had WinXP installed on an IDE Drive (Drive C). I have since got a smallish SCSI drive (Drive E) and installed a fresh copy of XP onto that whilst the IDE drive was still plugged in. What that has done is that the SCSI XP Install has been simply added to the boot menu on the IDE drive.

I know I am able to boot off the SCSI drive in the BIOS so thats not a problem. I now want to format the C drive but obviously if I format the IDE drive I will lose the boot menu so I need to make the XP install on the SCSI drive bootable.

Anyone know how and if it can be done done without doing another format?

Cheers
 
Help! I've tried following the advice I linked to in my previous post but still no joy - can anyone help?

Heres what I done last night....

Got into XP Recovery Console
Used the BOOTCFG and FIXBOOT commands on the SCSI drive
Changed the BIOS so it boots off SCSI first

But still I get a message saying no boot device was found. I have SUSE 8 sitting here ready to be installed so I really want to kill my old WinXP partition on my current boot drive!

Can anyone help?
 
If you want to boot from the SCSI, the boot files will have to be on the SCSI. Also, you don't want to change NT's drive letter from what it was at the time of install, else more problems. Might be simpler to put linux on the SCSI, or let it create its own partition on current C:.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top