I'm making this harder than it is. I'm sure of it.
I bought a new WD Raptor 150GB for my OS. Nice drive! I installed Vista fresh-'n-clean on it, and I kept my old boot drive w/ XP in the system. Install went great, never hinting at the problem I'd have.
Apparently my MBR is on that old drive, so I have to boot to _it_ before picking which OS I want to run. Which means I can't remove that old drive. I'd like to.
Everything I've read about MBRs is about fixing them. Not moving them. Can I move this thing to my new drive, set that drive to have the active partition, and boot from it standalone? If so, how?
Do I just treat it as "broken" and try to "fix it"?
Thanks for any help.
--James in S.D.
I bought a new WD Raptor 150GB for my OS. Nice drive! I installed Vista fresh-'n-clean on it, and I kept my old boot drive w/ XP in the system. Install went great, never hinting at the problem I'd have.
Apparently my MBR is on that old drive, so I have to boot to _it_ before picking which OS I want to run. Which means I can't remove that old drive. I'd like to.
Everything I've read about MBRs is about fixing them. Not moving them. Can I move this thing to my new drive, set that drive to have the active partition, and boot from it standalone? If so, how?
Do I just treat it as "broken" and try to "fix it"?
Thanks for any help.
--James in S.D.
