Can not boot

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Robert Bartholomew

I was having issues with my Primary Master drive (C) so I did a fresh
install on a Primary Slave drive (E) leaving the other for domain use until
I was ready with the replacement.
Well now I am ready with it however if I make it the Primary Master it will
not boot. I get a message "Operating System not Found."

Of course if I leave it as slave and multi boot to it all works fine.
However I can not leave it this way.

I copied over the boot.ini and made sure it was pointed correctly and I also
moved over some other files that I had seen were not present on the drive
but I still get that message.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Bob
 
You cannot boot to an operating system from the slave. It MUST be the Primary Master. Therefore you will need to change your drive to the Primary Master Controller and switch your jumper on the Hard Drive to Master.

This will probably fix the problem assuming your boot.ini file is configured properly for the new OS.

Pete Choppin, MCP
http://www.websolutionpro.com

----- Robert Bartholomew wrote: -----

I was having issues with my Primary Master drive (C) so I did a fresh
install on a Primary Slave drive (E) leaving the other for domain use until
I was ready with the replacement.
Well now I am ready with it however if I make it the Primary Master it will
not boot. I get a message "Operating System not Found."

Of course if I leave it as slave and multi boot to it all works fine.
However I can not leave it this way.

I copied over the boot.ini and made sure it was pointed correctly and I also
moved over some other files that I had seen were not present on the drive
but I still get that message.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Bob
 
Robert

Is E a primary partition? Is it set active? Does it contain a Master Boot
Record (FIXMBR from the recovery console)? Is the ARC path in boot.ini
pointing to the correct disk and partition?

You could perform a Manual Repair and perform all three options there, see
this MS Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=238359

Best regards

Bjorn
 
Slight qualification: You can boot into any partition (primary, logical,
master disk, slave disk) with certain third-party boot managers, e.g. XOSL.


Pete Choppin said:
You cannot boot to an operating system from the slave. It MUST be the
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Primary Master. Therefore you will need to change your drive to the Primary
Master Controller and switch your jumper on the Hard Drive to Master.
This will probably fix the problem assuming your boot.ini file is
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configured properly for the new OS.
 
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