Re: multiboot issues

Please do us a favour and post your messages just once.
I feel like an idiot after spending ten minutes answering
your post, only to find that other respondents have said
much the same thing in response to your earlier post under
a different name and subject. What are you trying to
achieve? You won't win many friends this way.


"Mr. A." <mawbrey@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O9oxNLYKGHA.3876@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
have two hard drives. When I setup XP, I mistakenly created a multi-boot
system. One drive C: containing ME the other D: XP. However, XP loaded
it's
operating files onto the C: drive and then loaded everything else into the
D:\windows directory it created. All worked fine for about a month. The C:
drive was not reading correctly for some reason and would hang after the
bio's routine finished and thus no operating system would load. I could
access only the D: drive in DOS via XP boot from CDROM. DOS would report
the
C: drive having an enumeration error whenever I attempted to access data
on
it using the dir command. I was able to repartition the C: drive and
reformat it. After error checking the disk I then installed XP onto it. I
chose to load XP onto the C: drive so the data on the D: drive would not
be
lost while running XP's install on that drive. However, all the programs
that I installed on the D: drive using XP prior to the C: drive crashing
will not run. If I reinstalled XP is there anyway I can get it to
recognize
the previous windows XP files that exist on the D: drive so XP loads
itself
onto the D: drive. Or, inable to access the existing programs on the D:
drive I need to reinstall them.




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