Re: Changing the system disk after install

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Disconnect the drive you dont want to use, adjust drive jumpers on the
remaining drive to master, assuming its ide. Clean reinstall winxp, update &
ensure its ok. Shutdown PC, reconnect other drive as slave

"Scott S" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have recently installed a clean copy of XP onto a machine with 2 hard
drives, one is the C: drive with 2 other partitons D: & E:

The 2nd hard drive is completly blank and just formatted. The problem is
windows has installed on the C: Drive, but the 2nd hard drive is listed as
the system disk in the device manager and C: is the boot drive.

when I boot with recovery coucel and try to fixmbr it states that windows
is installed on F:\windows (Which is the 2nd hard drive).

Any ideas on how to change the "system drive" to the C:\ (boot) drive?



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