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making my drive bootable (new xp install)

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lockmac

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Hi. I have a SATA disk and an IDE disk.

Anyways I installed windows onto my SATA but the install didnt work so i have installed it onto my IDE. Now when I boot, it is using the boot.ini from the SATA to boot my IDE drive. I dont want this, as i want to delete that partition on the SATA drive.

How do i make my IDE do the booting I copied the boot.ini over to the IDE and changed my BIOS to boot that drive first, but it doesnt boot. It just says something (cant remember, its two lines of text saying restart or select proper boot media)

Anyone know how to fix this

Are their more files than just the boot.ini i need to copy As in my SATA drive, I have AUTOEXEC, CONFIG, MSDOS, ntldr, NTDETECT, and my IDE only has pagefile (and i copied boot.ini).

EDIT: I copied these files to my IDE drive but i still get the message
 
Do you actually have a full windows install on the IDE drive? If so, unhook the SATA drive. Boot to the windows install CD. Select R at the first options screen, this will take you to the recovery console. There should only be 1 OS listed, select that one and enter the admin password when asked (typically no admin password, if so just hit enter). type: BOOTCFG /REBUILD at the command prompt. This will recreate a good boot.ini for that drive.

Format the SATA, use it as a storage drive. Should be good to go after this. Some tweaking with boot order in the bios may be necessary.
 
ntldr is the boot loader. A normal format writes the boot sector code. If boot.ini points to the correct disk/partition, make sure the partiton is marked as active.
 
Originally posted by: BigPoppa
Do you actually have a full windows install on the IDE drive? If so, unhook the SATA drive. Boot to the windows install CD. Select R at the first options screen, this will take you to the recovery console. There should only be 1 OS listed, select that one and enter the admin password when asked (typically no admin password, if so just hit enter). type: BOOTCFG /REBUILD at the command prompt. This will recreate a good boot.ini for that drive.

Format the SATA, use it as a storage drive. Should be good to go after this. Some tweaking with boot order in the bios may be necessary.
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ok thanks.. ill give it a try and see how it goes
 
Based upon your description, Im not really sure about your drive configuration setup. NT/2000/XP can be installed in a primary or logical partition on any accessible drive. If installed into a logical partition, NT/2000/XP's boot code must reside in a primary FAT16 or NTFS partition within the first 2GB on the FIRST PHYSICAL DRIVE.

Now traditionally with ATA IDE based platforms, the BIOS will want to boot from the first physical drive on the primary HDD controller. With your mix of IDE & SATA type channels & HDDs on each of them, Im not sure what what the BIOS will choose, but if I had to guess it would be that the first physical SATA drive would be it. Whether or not this is changeable in the BIOS is unknown to me. It may be that if a SATA HDD is plugged in, then this will be become the boot HDD over the IDE.
 
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