have two hard drives and installed windows on both

[Guest]

I have a computer that has two windows xp installed on seperrate hard drives.
I removed the top hard drive which is going bad. When I removed it and put in
the new hard drive which has windows installed too the only thing it shows
when I boot it up it shows / and it does not load windows. When I put in the
new hard drive as the second and put the old hard drive back when I boot it
shows two windows xp installed and it lets me chose which one I want. How can
I make the new hard drive load windows xp and not show /

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Boot to setup cd, and Recovery Console prompt, to run the commands FIXBOOT, and then BOOTCFG /REBUILD


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[Guest]

Have you reset the jumpers on the drives,both seem like thier set as
master on diffrent IDE chains,otherwise if on the same IDE,one set as master,
the other slave thiers really no way a conflict or menu on which to boot to
should ever appear.

 

[peterk]

The problem is that when you installed that 2nd XP onto that 2nd HD it was
not the Main Drive(c) and therefore XP placed all of its boot files on the
old HD which was C.
After you connect the new HD as the Master on the Cable start your system
with the XP CD and do a "repair installation"
just follow all of the prompts as normal but keep an eye out for that
"repair" option.
peterk

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help, repairing worked.