I have a Windows Xp and recently got the painful blue screen and realized I would have to reformat my Hard drive and lose everything. I took my hard drive from the blue screen computer and put it into my other XP but it does the same thing on both computers meaning that the hard drive is what has the problem on it. (the bootup part) I set it as a second drive which made it Local disk E. I am wandering is there anyway to set my good Drive as Local Disk E and the bad one as C but boot from E? I dont got the boot floppy or Cd disk at all. I tried holding Delete key at start up and for some reason it couldnt detect my Slave drive (the good one) How can I boot up using my slave drive?

#1, No, that is not correct. You can't usually move a good/bad install to another machine to prove it is good/bad. Only BeOS can be moved like that. MS systems boot on the first active partiton. (along with other thing). Use fdisk to make your intended partiton active.

First off you have to get into your bios.I don't know if your bios supports this. Set your et your Bad drive as master and connect to end of ide cable. Set good drive to slave and connect to middle ide connector. Press delete or it could be f2 or something to enter cmos. here on the first screen you can either enter drive parameters manually or look for auto detect or set primary master & slave to auto. after that escape from that screen and look around for boot options. Once you find that, you may be able to boot from e: you at the least have the options to boot from: (a,c) (c,a)(a,cdrom,c)(c only). See if there are more options. My bios will also boot from (d,e,f,g,h,j,k) Give it a try. If all else fails, just set the good drive as master and the bad as slave,but they still have to be detected in bios. Good luck, C. Why not buy it tomorrow instead of today? It's sure to be cheaper and definately outdated! Except for GAS !!!!