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Dual XP Boot
Name: toppscrt Date: January 21, 2005 at 12:40:20 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD64/3000 512MB DDR
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Need to eliminate my dual boot system so I can just set up a RAID system. Ok, here's the specifics.
I have a 20GB hard drive on IDE 1 and a Raptor hard drive on SATA 1. I also have a 120 GB external USB hard drive but that one doesn't present a problem. On the other two hard drives, I have Windows XP Pro. Because of this I think the slower IDE 1 hard drive is slowing my system down. It was the original hard drive so I assume it has the MBR located on it (I could be wrong).
Is there anyway to correct this situation and just have the Raptor as my boot disk and all without having to format and reinstall everything?
Name: per Date: January 21, 2005 at 12:42:30 Pacific
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You can create a bootable clone using norton ghost or casperxp.
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Response Number 2
Name: josh (by jpag3074) Date: January 21, 2005 at 12:43:50 Pacific
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remove the boot.ini on your IDE drive, edit the boot.ini on your raptor drive and make sure that there is only one "[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=AlwaysOff" of that there in the boot.ini in your bios set it up so that you do not boot off of your IDE-0 or "hard disk" and have it boot to the SATA instead
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Response Number 3
Name: toppscrt Date: January 21, 2005 at 13:30:18 Pacific
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Thanks for the assistance guys. I won't even begin to try and do the ghost thing. Tried that before and I messed everything up, lol.
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Response Number 4
Name: per Date: January 21, 2005 at 13:33:23 Pacific
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Did you run it from the boot floppy? It's pretty fool proof from the floppy. I do at least 2 clones a week for backups.
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Response Number 5
Name: toppscrt Date: January 21, 2005 at 15:20:26 Pacific
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Think the time I did it I ran it from the CD roms I had made. Not sure if I originally booted to floppy but I thought I did. Like I said, been awhile.
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Response Number 6
Name: toppscrt Date: January 22, 2005 at 10:06:18 Pacific
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Think the time I did it I ran it from the CD roms I had made. Not sure if I originally booted to floppy but I thought I did. Like I said, been awhile.
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