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I belived all the propaganda on at least three software manuals and a book I bought to help me with XP Professional. I tried to install an additional hard drive and lost the ability to boot from my harddrive. After several attempts at recovering I reinstalled XP to another folder. I don't want to reinstall all the hardware and redo my settings. How do I get the program to boot from the old windows folder.

I do have a backup copy of the boot disk before it was wiped out and a copy of the last good point before every thing went south.

By the way the help instructions didn't work of an automated revcovery disk.
 
Lost said:
I belived all the propaganda on at least three software manuals and a
book I bought to help me with XP Professional. I tried to install an
additional hard drive and lost the ability to boot from my harddrive.
After several attempts at recovering I reinstalled XP to another
folder. I don't want to reinstall all the hardware and redo my
settings. How do I get the program to boot from the old windows
folder.

I do have a backup copy of the boot disk before it was wiped out and
a copy of the last good point before every thing went south.

By the way the help instructions didn't work of an automated
revcovery disk.
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You didn't exactly say, but it appears to me that you intended to
install the new drive as a secondary drive and keep the original as your
boot drive. Although it's a bit difficult to say without additional
information, your problem sounds like it might involve the jumper
settings on the drives and/or your BIOS settings.

You probably have two IDE bus connectors on your motherboard and two
drive connectors on _each_ IDE cable from those buses. Hard disk jumper
settings are usually something like "Master," "Slave," "Cable Select"
(or "CS"), and possibly a "Standalone" (only drive on the cable)
setting. Your boot drive should be set to be "Master" or "Standalone,"
as appropriate, and your BIOS set to choose the proper bus (containing
the desired boot drive). The secondary drive should be set to "Slave" if
on the same bus as the boot drive, or either "Master" or "Slave" if on
the other bus as appropriate to the setting of any other drive on that
bus (e.g., CD-ROM, etc.).

No guarantees, but I hope this helps.

Doug
 
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