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How do I boot from my D drive instead of my C drive?

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eflat

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I just loaded Windows XP onto my D drive (Windows 98 is on the C drive), but if I take the C drive out, I can't boot XP. How can I eliminate the C drive and just use the D drive (XP)?

Thanks,
Doug
 
Take your C: drive out, then boot to your windows XP CD. Select the repair option, and when you are in the recovery console, type fixboot, and it should work. You might also want to try fixmbr.
 
Are you trying to install Windows XP as your primary OS or are you trying to dual-boot between XP and 98?

If you're trying to dual-boot, which OS did you install first? If it's 98, then you're in trouble...big big trouble... J/K - no trouble - it's just that you always install the older OS first.

If you're trying to install XP as your primary OS on partition C:, put the CD into your CD-rom drive, make the drive bootable in the BIOS and you're all set. When you boot your computer, press a key when prompted to boot from CD-Rom, and then you format your C: partition within the XP installation, and you're good to go.
 
Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode
Take your C: drive out, then boot to your windows XP CD. Select the repair option, and when you are in the recovery console, type fixboot, and it should work. You might also want to try fixmbr.
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Oh, I actually seem to have misunderstood the original question. If you want to have XP as your only OS, the best thing would probably be to follow the above advice. A question though...Why not just install XP on C:?
 
The reason I didn't install it on C: to begin with is because I can't boot with my cdrom and my floppy drive is never going to work. So the only way to install it was to do it in windows. So I can't put the cd in and hope to boot it.. because it won't work. Am I out of luck?
 
ok what I understand is that you have not installed XP to anyone of your drives or are you talking about partitions?
 
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