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move or delete mbr?

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futtbucker

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I ended up with a dual boot system on two hard drives and when I remove my second hard drive my computer won't boot even though WinXP is installed on the remaining hard drive...does that make sense? Anyway, how do I fix the mbr's? My boot.ini only refers to the XP system...not the second OS that I have removed. Let me know if you need more specific info, I haven't looked into it for months and can't remember the details(left the hard drive in place) but now I'm worried that my 'Deathstar' may fail. The MBR has always been confusing to me.

Thanks
 
How was your partitions setup on both hard drives? Most likely the 2nd hard drive was given drive letter D:
So when you removed it.. it changed the other drive letters.

So if you had WinXP installed to drive E: on the first hard drive.. then removed the 2nd hard drive which was D:
Then your WinXP that was on E: would then be changed to D:

That could of happened... but noway for us to tell without knowing your partitioning setup.
 
First, make sure your hard drive is the master. You can erase the MBR by making a Windows boot disk and putting fdisk.exe on it. After you boot to it, do "fdisk /mbr".
 
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