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booting xp problem
Name: knight5 Date: April 30, 2004 at 18:44:14 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 2500/512
Comment:
ok I have 2 drives in my system,one is C and other one is D.I first Installed win98 on C and the upgraded it to xp,while the xp was installing itself and restarted once to complete the installation I saw that its installing itself on drive D? I canceled the winxp setup and removed the D drive.then I installed xp on C and it works fine.now when I restart the pc and plug the D drive in which is empty the windows xp is loading from that drive and it just stays on the boot up screen. anyone knows how to fix this
Name: snaker Date: April 30, 2004 at 19:18:31 Pacific
Reply:
to make sure the d drive is empty format the drive. check ur bios setting and make sure u have c as ur first boot.
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: April 30, 2004 at 21:04:37 Pacific
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actually you want to look at your boot.ini at the root of c: rdisk should be 0 and partition 1.
XP will only boot to d: if rdisk is 1.
Easy solution is not format d: but wipe it ie. delete all partitions. You can do this a number of ways but delpart.exe downloaded from the web might be easiest for you.
This will take care of the issue of which drive to boot. Use XP's disk manager to partition and format. You shouldn't have any more issues after this.
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Response Number 3
Name: snaker Date: April 30, 2004 at 21:38:51 Pacific
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if i have read correctly knight5 has 2 seperate harddrives c and d not a partitioned hd
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Response Number 4
Name: knight5 Date: April 30, 2004 at 23:35:04 Pacific
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ok I checked the BOOT.INI file and this is what it says
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
is that good? and if I unplug the cable from the second hdd I can boot winxp fine
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