Ok, this question has come up before at least once in the past, but the search function just ends up spewing the endless amount of people trying to figure out dual boot, or with a corupt install.
I have 2 HD's, HD1 is an old UDMA-33 drive from ages past. I used it in this comp because I needed some stuff off the HD, and when I tryed installing XP on my new SATA HD(HD2) I couldn't because at the time I didn't know I needed a sata driver to install. Long story short I installed win2k on HD1, then installed XP on HD2.
Now HD1 is quickly approching the end of its life, and I need xp to boot from HD2. I really don't want to go though installing xp again, because it just takes too long to everything working again. So I'm looking to make HD2 able to boot to xp without HD1.
Now someone correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm not sure of how xp installs...... Now HD2 is missing a 'system partition' that would contain NTLDR the NT boot loader, and that is uhhh the problem right? Sooo how would I put one of those on a disk without destroying anything else? Will the repair option put everything back to when it was installed(which would be as bad as format/reinstall as I use a 3 partition system). Could I make a blank CD bootable with ntfs part, so it'd load the NTLDR for temp fix?
BTW Its been giving me invalid boot.ini on cold boot now, and a few minites when it couldn't find the boot.ini it tryed to boot win2k from hd1 it locked up before it could get though it, so if you have any suggestions, even if your not sure they'll work give them to me.
I have 2 HD's, HD1 is an old UDMA-33 drive from ages past. I used it in this comp because I needed some stuff off the HD, and when I tryed installing XP on my new SATA HD(HD2) I couldn't because at the time I didn't know I needed a sata driver to install. Long story short I installed win2k on HD1, then installed XP on HD2.
Now HD1 is quickly approching the end of its life, and I need xp to boot from HD2. I really don't want to go though installing xp again, because it just takes too long to everything working again. So I'm looking to make HD2 able to boot to xp without HD1.
Now someone correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm not sure of how xp installs...... Now HD2 is missing a 'system partition' that would contain NTLDR the NT boot loader, and that is uhhh the problem right? Sooo how would I put one of those on a disk without destroying anything else? Will the repair option put everything back to when it was installed(which would be as bad as format/reinstall as I use a 3 partition system). Could I make a blank CD bootable with ntfs part, so it'd load the NTLDR for temp fix?
BTW Its been giving me invalid boot.ini on cold boot now, and a few minites when it couldn't find the boot.ini it tryed to boot win2k from hd1 it locked up before it could get though it, so if you have any suggestions, even if your not sure they'll work give them to me.