Removing primary drive when XP on secondary

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Willie

I have a dual-bootable Win98-XP system with Win98 on 40GB HD with C
partition. XP is on secondary 40GB HD which is defined in XP as disk I.
This is where all my XP applications are installed. Now I want to
eliminate the first HD (the bootable one) and move XP HD to primary and
make it bootable. Is this possible to do?
I have a spare 40GB HD onto which I copied my XP NTFS partition plus
ntldr and ntdetect and boot.ini. I altered boot.ini to change the drive
to the primary. I then booted the XP CD and went into the repair
console and used the FIXBOOT to make the partition bootable. I then
made that disk the only disk and primary. When I booted, XP booted up
to the initial screen and then kept saying there was an error trying to
verify the registration and would not continue. I suspect that the
problem is that the partition letter is C instead of the original I, so
all the paths would be wrong.
I also tried the repair from the XP CD, but when it rebooted, it said it
needed a file from the XP CD, and wanted the path to it, but no matter
what I entered, it could not find it! It appeared that it was not
recognizing the CDROM drive.

Willie
 
Why not use XCOPY in xp to transfer xp to other hd,but if youve transfere
xp already,youre next step would be to boot to xp cd,then selec
to reinstall xp,either new copy or over current,new copy will end youre othe
problems.XP doesnt copy very well.
 
Andrew said:
Why not use XCOPY in xp to transfer xp to other hd,but if youve transfered
xp already,youre next step would be to boot to xp cd,then select
to reinstall xp,either new copy or over current,new copy will end youre other
problems.XP doesnt copy very well.
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Will repair XP change drive letters in registry? With XP on current
drive, it and all XP apps are drive letter I. However, when that drive
is made the primary drive, the letter will automaticlly be changed to C.
I need to either change all the registry entries from I to C, or get
the boot partition changed in XP back to I.
 
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