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| Thread ID: 47866 | 2004-08-07 21:27:00 | Booting from Slave drive | Vibeke (2126) | Press F1 |
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| 259259 | 2004-08-07 21:27:00 | I have XP on 2 disks, Master (C) and slave (D). I want to replace my Master Drive. How can I force the system to boot from my Slave drive. I have tried changing the bios, but I'm missing something, I have got a boot.ini on D, but there must be some other files needed. Vibeke |
Vibeke (2126) | ||
| 259260 | 2004-08-07 21:44:00 | vibeke I have 2 bootable Hds and edited the boot.ini to read as follows: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect When booting, the pc will ask which drive you want to boot. Either can be made the default. Does this help, or have I misunderstood your problem? brig |
brig (1359) | ||
| 259261 | 2004-08-07 21:59:00 | have you tried setting your current slave as the master? I'm probably wrong, but i have always thought that it's only the boot files on the C: drive that are read. |
4bes (2848) | ||
| 259262 | 2004-08-07 22:12:00 | Not quite what I was after. I can use either version of XP. What I want to do is copy my C Drive to a removable media. Remove the orginal drive, install a new bigger drive, and copy everything back. In the meantime I want to be able to have the computer boot from the slave. Vibeke |
Vibeke (2126) | ||
| 259263 | 2004-08-07 22:14:00 | Have thogut of that, but then all the drive letters will be wrong, eg my D drive will become C, actually, if I boot from D removing C I guess the same thing will happen. Might need ot give it some more thought, before I rip the whole thing apart. Vibeke |
Vibeke (2126) | ||
| 259264 | 2004-08-08 03:29:00 | Anyway, it's usually best to install Windows. There are all sorts of things which can catch you if you don't.:_| Linux is a different matter ... ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 259265 | 2004-08-08 03:54:00 | Try pressing F8 during the boot, you should be then prompted which drive you wish to boot from | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 259266 | 2004-08-08 05:02:00 | > my D drive will become C, actually, if I boot from D removing C I guess the same thing will happen You can change all that. If you use XP, Start --> Run -- compmgmt.mscn Look under Disk Management, under Storage. |
Growly (6) | ||
| 259267 | 2004-08-08 05:03:00 | *If you use XP, Start --> Run --> compmgmt.msc | Growly (6) | ||
| 259268 | 2004-08-08 05:40:00 | Thanks, I think the best way to procced is to; 1. remove my slave drive. 2. put the new drive in it's place, as a slave. 3. format and partition it. 4. copy everything on the master drive to the new drive. 5. change the jumpers on the new drive to make it the Master drive. 6. exchange it for the original master drive. 7. put my original slave drive back cross fingers and everything should work. |
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