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| Thread ID: 66565 | 2006-02-27 08:25:00 | Hard drive will not boot | Shane (1677) | Press F1 |
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| 434254 | 2006-02-27 08:25:00 | Hi there, I have removed one of the two hard drives on my computer and it will not boot. THe system software is freshly installed on the newer hard drive and I have formatted the older drive I am removing. However Windows XP will not load up after I have removed the older hard drive. All is OK when I have both in. Any thoughts on how I can fix this? Cheers Shane |
Shane (1677) | ||
| 434255 | 2006-02-27 08:39:00 | Hi, Welcome to PressF1 Using your WinXP disk, load the recovery console and run the command fixmbr to fix the master boot record. Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console (support.microsoft.com) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 434256 | 2006-02-27 09:26:00 | Hi Jen, Many thanks for the advice. No luck so far. The fxmbr seemed to run, despite me not knowing what my administrator password was. Said it was successful. The drive will still not boot without the other one present. | Shane (1677) | ||
| 434257 | 2006-02-27 19:00:00 | Must be like nuns, they only work in pairs......LOL :D Seriously... is the new drive set as master, is the primary partition active, is it C: ?? |
snoopy (74) | ||
| 434258 | 2006-02-27 21:37:00 | It could be when you remove a hard drive, the partitions are re-numbered. Could you post the contents of this file: Start... Run... Cmd notepad c:\boot.ini Edit...Select all Edit...Copy File...Exit exit |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 434259 | 2006-02-28 04:13:00 | Hi Kingdragonfly. The file reads: [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 Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn This is while there are two drives installed. Shane |
Shane (1677) | ||
| 434260 | 2006-02-28 04:17:00 | The boot.ini file or the boot loader will be on the original hard drive. Quick solution, leave old drive out, boot to winxp cd and do a repair on the install, 15min and you will be sorted, but dont forget to patch again! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 434261 | 2006-02-28 04:18:00 | I suspect that the fixmbr command worked all right. On the old disk drive. :D Try doing it again with that drive removed, and the new one jumpered (or on the appropriate cable connector) to be the master drive. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 434262 | 2006-02-28 04:20:00 | or do fix mbr as Graham suggested, either way! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 434263 | 2006-02-28 04:33:00 | Update Ok I originally did the fixmbr on the new drive with the old one removed. That does not seem to have fixed what is happening. However, it seems that I might have been describing the problem incorrectly. After leaving the computer for a while I found that it infact does boot off the new drive, it just takes about 5 minutes. This has not improved after a couple of boots. |
Shane (1677) | ||
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