boot problem - please help

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Andrew

my system features an ide drive with winme on it and a
scsi drive with win2k. The ide drive is 'C' and the scsi
drive is 'D'. The system dual boots with boot.ini. I
would like to blow away the c drive but I noticed that
some win2k system files are on drive C! I am not sure why
they were installed there because everything else
belonging to win2k is on drive D. My dilemma is that I
cannot format the C drive because I'm afraid that I won't
be able to boot to the scsi drive. As a matter of fact I
tried it by disconnecting the C drive and indeed, I
couldn't boot into win2k anymore. The bios somehow has a
problem with booting from the scsi drive.
I already tried to use the win2k installation cd to run
the system repair from setup, and it did copy some files
to the D drive (ntdetect, ntldr etc) but still I can't
boot to the scsi drive.
What am I missing? Please help.
 
Andrew

It might be the MBR. Another cause of boot problems might be that the
partition isn't primary, but a logical drive in an extended partition, or
that the partition isn't set active (bootable).

If the partition isn't primary, some third party applications like
Partition Magic might be able to convert it. If it is a primary partition,
set it as active either using Disk Management while Win2000 is booted from
your IDE disk, or from FDISK when booting from a Win9x startup disk.

Best regards

Bjorn
 
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