I did a clean install of XP on what was previously the boot drive (SATA -
W2000 Pro) of my box. There was/is another drive...was "F"... that was set
as a master on the IDE channels containing an older W2000 Pro setup.
Xp installed fine on my SATA drive after reformatting...but...now when I
start if the XP cd is not in the bay...I get a system boot
failure...?...and...if it is...I get a choice for booting on a dos
screen...new XP or old (Drive F) W2000 ?
Also...I just noticed that my main drive...the SATA...is configured as drive
"D"...and the older backup W2000 drive is now Drive "C" in the XP system ?
How do I get rid of the dual boot option...which I didn't want nor realize
was being isntalled...and switch the drive letters so "D" (new XP clean
install) is now C and hopefully will boot ok without the XP CD in the tray ?
Re: XP Pro wont boot, safemode wont help, recovery console doesnt h ... Win XP Pro installed on a 300GB SATA drive,... When trying to boot it gets to the standard Windows logo and after ... new install, which AFAIK would wipe the drive). ... the SATA HDD listed in Device Manager in the "Disk drives" section? ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: XP Pro wont boot, safemode wont help, recovery console doesnt h ... Win XP Pro installed on a 300GB SATA drive,... When trying to boot it gets to the standard Windows logo and after ... new install, which AFAIK would wipe the drive). ...drives" section? ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Help! What did my new SATA drive do to XP? ... Thanks, just what I needed to know, that explains why it wouldn't boot from ...Repair Install is no problem, I've done that before - now to make sure I ... > found that the SATA HDD worked fine. ... > install SCSI or RAID drives, make sure you press the F6 key. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
Re: New SATA HDD wont show in My Computer ... so won't allow any of my other drives to show (Pioneer DVR a106, ... plugged the new HD into the SATA on the Mobo and plugged in the power ... In fact now the PC wouldn't boot.... only worked once during OS install and now wont show the DVD's) ... (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
Re: New SATA HDD wont show in My Computer ... so won't allow any of my other drives to show (Pioneer DVR a106, ... plugged the new HD into the SATA on the Mobo and plugged in the power ... In fact now the PC wouldn't boot.... only worked once during OS install and now wont show the DVD's) ... (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
