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    boot file problem

    I have two HDDs. An old system was installed on the primary drive. And a new system on the slave drive. Now I want to remove the primary drive and leave the slave drive alone in the case. However the new system cannot start up without the primary drive. How to fix that?
    Motherboard: ASUS P5B-E //ASUS AN8
    Cpu: CORE 2 DUO E6600 //Pentium 4 2.4GHz/533
    Ram: 1G*2 CONSAIR XMS2 DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
    //512MB PC2700 DDR * 2
    Hard Drive: WD Raptor 150GB
    SEAGATE SATA 80G
    //WD 160G, MAXTOR 200G, MAXTOR 200G
    Video Card: XFX GeForce 7600 GS 256MB PCIe
    DVDRW Samsung 16x4x16x
    Speakers: Logitech 640
    Mouse&Keyboard: Logitech Laser, MS 6000 combo
    Monitor: Samsung 20" SyncMaster 206BW
    OS: Windows XP Pro

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    Did you connect the old slave drive as the new primary?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DMan82
    Did you connect the old slave drive as the new primary?
    Of cause I did, the problem is that the boot.ini file is in the old primary drive. Without the file, I cannot run the new primary drive.
    Last edited by nn2000; 01-20-2007 at 10:32 PM.
    Motherboard: ASUS P5B-E //ASUS AN8
    Cpu: CORE 2 DUO E6600 //Pentium 4 2.4GHz/533
    Ram: 1G*2 CONSAIR XMS2 DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
    //512MB PC2700 DDR * 2
    Hard Drive: WD Raptor 150GB
    SEAGATE SATA 80G
    //WD 160G, MAXTOR 200G, MAXTOR 200G
    Video Card: XFX GeForce 7600 GS 256MB PCIe
    DVDRW Samsung 16x4x16x
    Speakers: Logitech 640
    Mouse&Keyboard: Logitech Laser, MS 6000 combo
    Monitor: Samsung 20" SyncMaster 206BW
    OS: Windows XP Pro

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    I ran into the same problem. Your best bet is to copy the boot.ini file from your hard drive to the other one.

    By the sounds of it you were running two OS's, so you may want to make some adjustments to your boot.ini file to either remove the old OS, or at least till it where your OS currently is.
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    You may also need to copy over the "ntldr" and "ntdetect.com" files if they are not on the new drive. Like the previous poster said, the boot.ini file will most likely need to be adjusted so that it does not tell the OS to look for different boot options. Of course, you could also just run a repair setup on the drive (I am assuming the OS is Windows XP...).

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    You'll need to boot from the XP CD and enter the Recovery Console. Once there, have a look at these commands..

    http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true

    http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true
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