Here is my story. Have dell XPS. Had 120 GB HD in there with Windows XP Home and was using that. Bought new HD, 160 GB and installed it. Worked great. Used it as 2nd hard drive. So sick of windows installion on 120 GB causing problems so I installed XP Pro that I own on other HD. Worked great. When I booted it would ask, Home or Pro. Picked pro. Start transfering docs and music and crap. Got all transfered! Yes. Now I want to reformat old hd with windows home on it so I can start using it for other stuff. Load windows setup with xp disk to reformat old HD with windows. Great reformatted. Uh oh... Now I turn on computer and it says Error Loading OS. what did I do? Why wont it boot from new hd. Was working fine before I reformatted old hd. I dont understand as I was using Pro off new hd. Please Help ASAP! Did I loose everything! Matt

In bios, it says in drive configuration: SATA Primary Drive: Auto and reconizes it fine (thats one I reformatted with nothing on it now) Primary Master Drive: Auto and reconizes it fine ( thats new one with os on it now) So it seems to reconize them. When I turn SATA primary off if it says error loading os) when its on it say just restrike f1 to reboot, and there is error. Boot Sequence just shows diskette drive, ide cd rom and C: Drive which is one with nothing on it, only 3 to pick from and not one is Drive D which has windows. So, I go press f12 to select boot option, select boot from Primary Master, and get error loading os! Help me Thanks in advance

I tried recovery console. Went into bootcfg. Had add windows C:/Windows as what to boot to. Which is weird because windows was D:/ but it showed directory and directory was what my d drive looked like. So now there is new boot ini but guess what it still says error boot from os. Matt

go to the bios & confirm that both of h/d u attach 2 that com.is showing or not.wheather ur cd is good one or not priti

Here is how it works: one partition is the boot partition, even if several operating systems are installed in different partitions in a multi-boot configuration. The boot partition is the one that was installed first, typically the C: drive. Said a different way: for MS multi-boot, the computer always boots from the same C:, then you get the choice of which partition to find the boot sector (it redirects to the disired partition). You format the boot partition, no OS has boot loader, you killed them all. A better plan would have been to simply delete the C:\WINDOWS folder and modify the boot.ini. I think maybe it can be fixed. Recovery console run fixmbr then fixboot. Use the same C: drive as the boot location and D: as the D:\WINDOWS location. A better method may be to install Pro on the now blank drive (C:) then copy files over from the D: drive. I realize you just did all this copying yet it is simply better to have windows on the C: drive. Best

dont understand ranjans post. Reinstalling windows on c drive right now. Matt

Ok windows reinstalled fine on C drive and booted up. How do I got about getting rid of all windows stuff on D Drive now? Matt