Another Boot Question

[JayPeterman]

I have a computer that has XP Pro. I installed another hard drive in
the same computer. I installed the same XP Pro on the "newer" hard
drive after formatting. I removed the "newer" hard drive and installed
it in another computer. I cannot boot it because it cannot find the
NTLDR.

I changed the boot order so that it would boot from the XP Pro CD. I
thought I could run the repair option. I have booted from this CD
before. Even though it gave me a milisecond to "press any key to boot
from CD" it didn't work and it gave me the NTLDR message again.

I went to a link provided by "Jake" that explained that I needed to
boot from a boot disk. The first computer does not have a floppy drive
so I cannot create one.

Is there anyway around this or do I have to visit a friend and make a
boot disk?

Thanks

 

[Rifleman]

[This followup was posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers and a
copy was sent to the cited author.]

It may be a problem with the primary drive. If you have
software like Partition Magic, set the primary partition
as the active partition to boot off of.

Please quote the post you are replying to. Otherwise no-one knows what
the question was you are answering.

Thank you.