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Question about slave hard drive..help please

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cellan

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I could use some help. DH has a Dell 4550 with a WD 30g hd. My Dell had a MOB failure and so it went back to be repaired. I kept my hard drive which is a 100g WD. I put my harddrive into his computer as the slave. Both hard drives are running XP. The thing is that I can see all my files and can get to my Word Documents and photos on the drive, but all my other programs on my drive (the slave) do not function. Microsoft Money, My Outlook Express with all my emails, I can not access any of it. Is this normal? Have I just not set it up correctly? Is the slave drive only for backup purposes or is there a way to make it where the programs can be clicked and function like the used to? Do I have a setting wrong somewhere?
Any help is appreciated.
TIA
 
You can try disconnecting his drive and connect yours to the master and leave his disconnected and see if that will remedy your problem temporarily.
I am not positive but I believe you would need a dual boot for them both to work properly while connected and you choose between the two at boot screen.
someone correct me if i am wrong

Also you are going to run into the XP activation screen since it will have to recognize all the new hardware. And this should be posted in OS forum where you might get more help
 
Most programs put a lot of info into the system registry and require it to be there when the system boots, else they won't work. With your current setup, it's not your system that's booting, it's his. His system registry doesn't have all your programs' info since they weren't installed onto his system, so they won't run if you try to start the executable.
cpars' comments are probably the best solution. If both systems are WinXP then it should just be a matter of adding your system to the boot.ini.
 
thank you both for replying. Can you give me an idea how to add to the boot.ini sequence.
Sorry to be so dumb about this.
TIA
 
Sorry I can't be specific, but my best advice is to run msconfig and click on the BOOT.INI tab. You'll see a window with a few lines of boot options such as timeout, default system, and a list of operating systems that most likely just has one entry, being his system. Write in another line identical to that one in the list, but change the disk info to point to your drive. I'm not sure, but that probably means changing disk(0) to disk(1), or rdisk(0) to rdisk(1). You can probably also change the label in the quotes to reflect whose system is whose (i.e. name the first one "Joe Shmoe's Windows XP" and the second one "cellan's Windows XP").
 
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