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Make a hard drive bootable?

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dwn

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Anyone know how to make a hard drive bootable in Windows XP Pro?

When I first formated it, there was an option to make bootable or just use for storage, I picked the wrong one. Now I set the whole thing up, restored a ghost image to it, copied over all my old data and I'm ready to go as my main drive. But of course now it doesn't boot since it's not a bootable drive. DOH!

So is there a way to fix this without having to reformat and start from scratch?

Thanks!
 
You probably just need to set the partition to "active." Partition Magic can do this, or a DOS boot disk and FDISK (might only work for FAT32 not NTFS). Or www.bootdisk.com probably has an XP rescue disk.
 
Try using the fixboot command from the recovery console. Fixboot writes a new boot sector making your drive bootable.
 
Oh yeah since drive isn't bootable a MBR probably wasn't created. Did XP even install anything since he designated the drive as storage?
 
I appreciate all the responses. I tried a few things and didn't get too far. So I just reformatted and did it the right way from scratch... Oh well!

Thanks for the help.
 
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