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Thread ID: 81252	2007-07-22 00:59:00	Copy of OS on another HDD	taly (5956)	Press F1

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571188	2007-07-22 00:59:00	I have Win XP home on PC with AOpen Mobo Athlon CPU 750 MHz and 512 Mb RAM and two HDD. Master HDD was C and there was a copy of 0S on D drive. When os on C drive became staffed and PC was hanging even during sys restore I swapped HD's . Then reformatted the former c drive and tried to save copyof OS on it. As a result most programs on the new C drive became uninstalled. It looks as the sys confuses C and D drives. When loaded new programs, it wants to save them on D disk. When PC starts it asks what OS to use . Now , there are two Win XP but when l've chosen second, it opened complete installation window. But disk D works ok. :mad: :confused: Any comments? Thanks	taly (5956)
571189	2007-07-22 01:08:00	Edit the boot.ini file and delete the reference to c, then boot from D if thats the working hdd. Then format C.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
571190	2007-07-22 01:10:00	wudnt disk mirroring do the same thing?	aidanmaz (7180)
571191	2007-07-22 02:54:00	No, disk mirroring wouldn't do the same thing . ;) My solution would be to use the new "disk D" which "works ok" . Leave well alone . :) Isn't it true that boot . ini doesn't use the "C:" and "D:" names except in comments and labels? What it wants are "rdisk(0)", etc, for physical drives and "partition(0)" and "partition(1)", etc, for partitions in those drives, as used in the second example in this KB item (support . microsoft . com/kb/289022) . In older versions of Windows "Disk C:" has always been the "hard disk Windows booted from " . At the booting stage "C:" has no meaning . The boot loader needs a hardware path to the device or partition it is to use . So your boot . ini might not have any reference to C: . If the second menu item works, that's your boot disk . Delete the first long line starting : "multi(0)" . . .	Graham L (2)
571192	2007-07-22 07:58:00	Hi there ! Went to disk management and found that disk C is system disk, but disk D is the boot disk. Then checked Bios setup and the first bood device is-C. I think the best is to leave all as it is since the sys works ok. But it's confusing.	taly (5956)
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