Re: Trouble Booting from Specific Hard Drive, Pleas help!

From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 05/04/04


Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 18:14:38 -0700

Please try your question on the hardware board:
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp

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"Dustin" <Dustin3202@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:7c5401c43171$60a6b4e0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>   Hi, my name is Dustin and I am having trouble booting
> my computer on a new Oporating System I just installed.
> Ok, so i installed Microsoft Windows XP Home Eddition on
> a new hard drive. How i did this? Well i was currently
> using a hard drive that had Windows XP on it already, The
> Hard Drive's name was ST368118. So i installed Windows XP
> Hope Eddition onto a Secondary Slave that i had attatched
> to my computer, This Hard Drive's name was called Maxtor
> 6Y080P0. So i installed Windows XP Home Eddition onto the
> Maxtor 6Y080P0 Hard Drive. Now I have a problem. In order
> to Boot up Windows XP that is installed on my Maxtor
> 6Y080P0 hard drive, I have to have the ST368118 Hard
> Drive set as the Master Hard Drive, and the Maxtor
> 6Y080P0 Hard Drive set as the Secondary Hard Drive.
>
>   When i read two Hard Drive's Volume information, I saw
> that they both were labled as Master Boot Record (MBR).
> Example, this is how it showed it,
>
> Partition Style:  Master Boot Record (MBR).
> Thats what they were labled as.
>
> Is there any way i can correct this?
> Somebody Please help me! 


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