Need help, fast :(

[Furor]

Okay, i'll try to make this as short and easy as possible.

My hard drive will be hard drive A, my brothers hard drive will be hard drive B.

I installed Win2K from A to B, and continued to get it working while A was primary master and B was secondary master. When I boot with A as primary master, I have the option to boot to my A's XP, or B's Win2k, and either work, but when I hook up B as primary master, and no secondary, it will not boot, so I can only access the drive if A is primary and B is secondary..I have run scandisk and norton utilities, but neither of them fixed it..when B boots, the error is "Remove disks or other media" ..I think this is a problem with boot.ini, I have tried a few different settings in it, but none have worked..

Any help is appreciated, feel free to ask any questions that might help find a solution 🙂

Thanks

 

[Elohim]

your boot kernal is installed on your primary drive(a🙂 If you switch the drives and reinstall it will work then. But then you have the same problem with one only able to be master and boot.

hope it helps!

 

[OpalFrost98GT]

Post your boot.ini file if you can...

 

[Furor]

This is the boot.ini on my primary drive(A)

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows"


This is B

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000" /fastdetect

I'm trying to get B to boot by itself before I have to reinstall.

 

[OpalFrost98GT]

<< This is the boot.ini on my primary drive(A)

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows"


This is B

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000" /fastdetect

I'm trying to get B to boot by itself before I have to reinstall. >>



Try this...

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000" /fastdetect

 

[Furor]

Tried that, didn't work..still says "Remove disks or other media" 🙁

 

[Tomek]

are the jumpers on the back of the drive set properly? although I don't think it is, it might be the problem

 

[Furor]

Yes they are, i've tried different ones.