New WinXP install not bootable...

[Lenor]

I would greatly appreciate any help with this problem:

I have old hard drive C and new hard drive D. Drive C has Win XP on it, and I wanted to do a clean install on D, so I ran the XP install disk from within windows, selected drive D, formatted to NTFS, and installed XP. It runs great, I can boot into the XP install on Drive D just fine while drive C is in my system.

*However*, if I remove old drive C and try to boot from drive D, it basically says that no boot record could be found, insert system disk, yadda yadda yadda.

So I can assume that there are some basic bootable system files that XP put on my C: drive, assuming it would always be there to handle the whole "booting" up thing. Copying all of the files I can find from the C:\ to D:\ doesn't help, even when viewing all hidden and system files.

I remember something about "sys [drive letter]" as making a drive bootable, but booting from a floppy doesn't allow me to see the D:\ drive, I assume it is because of the NTFS formatting.

If anyone knows a simple way to make this new drive bootable without reinstalling Windows on it, I would be most appreciative!

Thanks!

 

[Sephiroth]

Have you checked the boot.ini file.

I do know that Windows XP checks that before it completely boots.

You may have to edit it to tell Windows to boot from your 2nd drive.