Creating a bootable partition on a new harddrive

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Ken

Hello,


I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive,
creating 2 partitions.


Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that?
Can I even do that?


TIA.


Ken
 
Ken said:
Hello,


I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive,
creating 2 partitions.


Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that?
Can I even do that?


TIA.


Ken
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It can probably be done but you need to supply more details
about what you're trying to do. Do you wish to multi-boot?
If so, what OSs? How many partitions do you have on the
first drive? What type are they (FAT/NTFS)? What are
they used for? What about the second drive?
 
Ken said:
Hello,


I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive,
creating 2 partitions.


Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that?
Can I even do that?


TIA.


Ken
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You can use Partition Magic or something similar to make active primary
partitions, you can only have 1 partition active primary partition at a
time. In other words you cannot have 2 active primary partitions at
once or whilst using any OS.

Get a partitioning tool and find out how to use it and what will it do
first.
 
Pegasus said:
It can probably be done but you need to supply more details
about what you're trying to do. Do you wish to multi-boot?
If so, what OSs? How many partitions do you have on the
first drive? What type are they (FAT/NTFS)? What are
they used for? What about the second drive?
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Just one drive with 2 partitions.

Drive 1:

Part1: NTFS : Windows 2003
Part2: FAT32 : Windows 2000

How do I get part2 to boot?
 
Ken said:
Just one drive with 2 partitions.

Drive 1:

Part1: NTFS : Windows 2003
Part2: FAT32 : Windows 2000

How do I get part2 to boot?
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I am confused about these apparently contradictory
statements:
- I have added a new hard drive
- Just one drive with 2 partitions

Did you mean to say that you replaced your existing
drive with a new drive, having two partitions? If so,
how did you copy Win2000 from the old drive to the
second partition of the new drive?

Is Windows 2003 Server now installed on the first
partition of the new drive?
 
Bob said:
You can use Partition Magic or something similar to make active primary
partitions,
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you can only have 1 partition active primary partition at a time.
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on a single drive (and depending on the bootcode in the MBR).
In other words you cannot have 2 active primary partitions at
once or whilst using any OS.
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Clueless. You're on a roll, aren't you.
Get a partitioning tool and find out how to use it and what will it do first.
Click to expand...

Rotflol.
 
Pegasus said:
I am confused about these apparently contradictory
statements:
- I have added a new hard drive
- Just one drive with 2 partitions

Did you mean to say that you replaced your existing
drive with a new drive, having two partitions? If so,
how did you copy Win2000 from the old drive to the
second partition of the new drive?

Is Windows 2003 Server now installed on the first
partition of the new drive?
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Win 2003 is installed on the first partition.

I still have the old drive but I am trying to get rid of it and I copy
over the files using a utility provided by Seagate.

But how do I make this second partition bootable?

I was playing around with Boot.ini on the primary partition, can't get
it to boot to the second partion.
 
Ken said:
Win 2003 is installed on the first partition.

I still have the old drive but I am trying to get rid of it and I copy
over the files using a utility provided by Seagate.

But how do I make this second partition bootable?

I was playing around with Boot.ini on the primary partition, can't get
it to boot to the second partion.
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Things are slowly becoming clearer. It felt as if I had to apply the
thumbscrews until you volunteered all the essential details . . .

Here is the picture:
- You have a single disk with two partitions.
- Partition 1 is a primary NTFS partition with a new Win2003
Server installation.
- Partition 2 is a primary FAT32 partition. It has Win2000 that
was copied from an old hard disk, using the Seagate cloning
tool.

And here are the facts of life:
- Win2003 Server will boot happily.
- Win2000 must always be visible on drive C:, because this is
how it was born. On your machine it would show as drive D:.
- It is not possible to boot into Win2000 on your PC when
using the native Windows boot manager.

And here is the solution:
1. Get a copy of XOSL. It's free.
2. Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com.
3. Install XOSL on the Win2000 FAT partition. Not that you must
NOT declare this as a dedicated XOSL partition. If you do then
you will wipe Win2000!
4. Reboot the machine, and add the two OSs to the XOSL menu.
5. Configure XOSL such that when you boot into Win2000, the
Win2003 partition is hidden.

Point 5 is extremely important. If you omit it then Win2000 will
not run (if you're lucky), or you will cripple it (if you're unlucky).
 
Hello,


I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive,
creating 2 partitions.


Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that?
Can I even do that?
Click to expand...

You have to create a primary partition on the new drive, and make the
partition active. Then set your BIOS to boot from the second drive.
 
Andy said:
You have to create a primary partition on the new drive, and make the
partition active. Then set your BIOS to boot from the second drive.
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.. . . and end up with an inoperative installation. The OP installed
Win2000 on drive C: but your suggestion would let it run on drive D:.
The registry, however, has hundreds of references to drive C:,
thus preventing Windows from running properly.
 
Folkert said:
on a single drive (and depending on the bootcode in the MBR).




Clueless. You're on a roll, aren't you.




Rotflol.
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Well apart from telling me I am clueless, what is you intelligent answer?
Have you done any MS hardware courses?

Clueless
 
Folkert said:
on a single drive (and depending on the bootcode in the MBR).




Clueless. You're on a roll, aren't you.




Rotflol.
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Ooops, nearly forgot, how many other ppl do you call clueless, troll?
 
Bob H said:
Ooops, nearly forgot, how many other ppl do you call clueless, troll?
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What, you own the rights to be the only one?

Oh, and get a clue about setting up your newsclient properly too.
 
Rod said:
Only about 250 according to groups.google |-)
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Yes, he does come up quite a lot in various discussions I see.
It would help if he gave a helpful reply rather than just sit and call
anyone else who tries 'Clueless'
Troll, I say.
 
Bob H said:
Yes, he does come up quite a lot in various discussions I see.
It would help if he gave a helpful reply rather than just sit and call anyone
else who tries 'Clueless'
Troll, I say.
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Looks rather more like another of those pathetic
creatures no longer kept in locked wards in my opinion.
 
Whoa, so many braindead? Where is society going to.

Why? Yours wasn't helpful, but mine has to be?

Only those that are obviously braindead.

But you lot don't try.
All you lot ever does is parrot some halfthruths, things you
only half understand, with conviction, as if you were an expert.

Exactly, you don't have a clue. Obviously you never tried
what you parrot because if you had you would know better.

Constantly having it wrong, not checking what you say, that's
what makes you the troll, not me.
Looks rather more like another of those pathetic
creatures no longer kept in locked wards in my opinion.
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Speaking from personal experience, Rodney?
 
Folkert said:
What, you own the rights to be the only one?

Oh, and get a clue about setting up your newsclient properly too.
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Oh, I am sorry I didn't bow to your massive knowledge about all things
to do with computers, your brain must be about as big as a Dalek brain.
 
Folkert said:
Whoa, so many braindead? Where is society going to.




Why? Yours wasn't helpful, but mine has to be?




Only those that are obviously braindead.




But you lot don't try.
All you lot ever does is parrot some halfthruths, things you
only half understand, with conviction, as if you were an expert.




Exactly, you don't have a clue. Obviously you never tried
what you parrot because if you had you would know better.




Constantly having it wrong, not checking what you say, that's
what makes you the troll, not me.




Speaking from personal experience, Rodney?
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I have never clamed to be an expert, but you seem to be doing just that!
I only know enought to build my own 3 computers and network them
together with 3 different OS's
 
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