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Wierd OS dual boot question.... Removing drive with boot record. Possable?

Evadman

Evadman

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Here is the deal. I installed 2000 on c: in one of my computers. Then I decided that the hard drive I installed it on was too small, so I added a larger 80 gig hard drive, and installed 2000 on that as well. I did this so that I would not loose the data on the smaller drive. The problem is the smaller drive is drive C so that is where the boot record is. How in the world can I make it so I can remove drive c and boot with drive d?

When I remove drive C I get a OS not found for booting, even though 2k is installed on the drive still in the system. Is it possable to use norton ghost to copy over the boot record? Or can I remove Drive c: and just reinstall 2k on the new drive without loosing the data it contains?

Help would be appreciated 🙂
 
Let me get this straight. You are tring to change the master boot record correct? Then you should be able to do this by doing a format of the MBR. Have you tried booting into Dos and then doing a "fdisk /mbr" with both drives installed?

Wolfie
 
Originally posted by: Wolfie
Let me get this straight. You are tring to change the master boot record correct? Then you should be able to do this by doing a format of the MBR. Have you tried booting into Dos and then doing a "fdisk /mbr" with both drives installed?

Wolfie
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Nope, I have not tried that. Is there somewhere I can read up on how to do it? I have never modified the MBR.

 
When you boot into dos just type "fdisk /mbr" Without the quotes. When this is done, just restart your computer.

What this does is it removes the boot record. And then when you restart, Windows will detect that you have two os's and make a new MBR for you. PM me if you are still having problems.

Wolfie
 
Wolfe: i believe your mistaken.

fdisk /mbr replaces the boot record with a "backup" of the previous one. doing this will do nothing to solve his problem most likly.

what you need to do is boot to a dos prompt (good luck with XP/2000) then type SYS D:
this will transfer your system to your D: therefor making it bootable.

Hess.
 
Actually what should work is with both hard drives installed do the fdisk /mbr command. Then remove C: drive and set D: as master. Upon booting D: should automatically recreate a new mbr since the OS is win2k.
 
Originally posted by: SemperFi
I believe all you have to do is boot the 2000 cd and do a repair on the drive.

Semper Fi
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Tried that first. no worky.

I shall try out your idea Minendo.

 
I had sort of the same problem with Win98 and Unix. I installed Win98 on the master drive and linux or freebsd? on the slave.... When I removed the master and set the slave as master, I'd get the no operating system mesage. However, when I set the former slave to 'only/single device', it'd work fine. Might not apply to your situation, but I'd thought I'd throw it in.

I'm assuming that this is an old computer, that you can't set the boot drive to D: in the bios. Personally, I can't imagine why you'd have to monkey with the MBR.

P.S. that's one big $$@ tree you got in your yard, evadman.
 
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