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Help please this is rare
Name: lizmerrill Date: June 21, 2006 at 08:29:30 Pacific OS: WXP SP2 CPU/Ram: 800MHZ AMD 256 Product: NONE
Comment:
After i remvoe my 80gb fat32 slave, and reboot my system, on xp, the system asks for my windows cd to boot? My primary is a 160gb ntfs.
So I have to reconnect my 80gb slave to bring the system up.
I ran compmgmt.msc and it indicates my primary is 0, and slave is 1.
So why can't I disconnect my 80gb slave, without screwing my whole system
Name: Nikalus Date: June 21, 2006 at 09:40:32 Pacific
Reply:
On the harddrive it self should be some pins with a jumper on one of them. those pins tell your motherboard if you have 1 harddrive or more and which one is the primary and which one is the secondary etc...
make sure on your 160GB hardrive the jumper is set to 1 harddrive only
It appears whoever installed xp installed the O/S on the 80 bg hdd. The boot files are always installed on drive C: but the O/S itself can be installed on any drive or partition. If you want to check on this open up the 80 gb drive and see if there is a folder labeled WINDOWS.
If you want to fix this, you'll most likely have to do a fresh install of WinXP so that everything is on one hard drive.
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Response Number 4
Name: wanderer Date: June 21, 2006 at 13:26:45 Pacific
Reply:
The question that needs to be asked is is the 160 gig drive partitioned?
Does the 80gig drive have boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect at the root? If so you have misdiagnosed which is the system drive [one containing the boot files]
Even if disk admin says drive 0 is x and drive1 is y that doesn't not take into account bios boot order [could be set for the second drive]
Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.
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