Re: Can Only Boot with Boot CD in Drive

On 10/4/2006 11:28 PM, Justin Case wrote:
I don't think you realize all that you have done. I believe you now have TWO installations of Windows, one on the 80G, and one on the 160G. The original apparently is corrupt. The boot files remained there when you reinstalled to the wrong (the 80G) drive. Therefore the 160G boots.
[Rightclick My Computer. Choose Manage. Under Storage in the left pane, click Disk management. Which drive says "System", which says "Active" ("Boot"), etc. in the right pane? (This is the Disk SnapIn Tool, and may cause you to reinstall everything, if used to make changes without proper Knowledge.)

Currently, the D: drive (the 80gig drive that used to be my C: drive) is listed as Boot, while the C: drive (the 160gig drive that used to be my D: drive) is listed as system.

As of Now, ANY programs installed with the first Windows install are pointing to the wrong drive, because when you installed the 2nd Windows, THAT became the C: drive according to Windows. So ANY/ALL programs not reinstalled are skewed, and any leftover parts are, too.
Best bet: total reinstall of entire system.(if it was me)
To make Photoshop work (possibly), as is: replicate the path to the the library with empty folders on the D: drive, and copy the final library folder at the end of the path.
That is: If program's path says D:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop\Library, open D:\Program Files and just make a New>folder named Adobe, make a folder inside it named Photoshop, then copy and paste the library folder inside of that. May work; don't know what all else you've reinstalled, or haven't.
I'd start over.

To start over, do I need to erase these system files from one of my drives? Specifically, do I need to get rid of (or move to the other drive) NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI?

When I insert the Recovery disk to re-install windows, it always refers to my drives backwards ... in other words, the original C: drive (80gig) was always referred to by this program as my D: drive. I'm sure this is part of the confusion that I am having.

You are definitely correct about Photoshop Album, but I want my data files on a different drive from my Windows installation, just in case I ever have to do a re-install.

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