Re: Moving an XP Pro installation to a new hard drive

From: Joshua Beall (jbeall_at_donotspam.remove.me.heraldic.us)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:08:25 GMT

Well, I actually got it working, but now I have a different sort of problem.
While struggling to get things working, I managed to add 2 duplicate entries
in the boot menu. So now you are provided with a list of 3 operatings
systems to choose from when starting the machine: XP Pro, XP Pro, or Windows
XP Professional.

How do I get rid of two XP Pro boot entries? I added them using "bootcfg
/add" and "bootcfg /rebuild" while logged into the recovery console. But I
looked at the other options for bootcfg, and none of them *deletes* an
entry. How do I do that?

  -Josh

"Joshua Beall" <jbeall@donotspam.remove.me.heraldic.us> wrote in message
news:52zgd.3313$vJ.155@trnddc02...
> Hi All,
>
> I have a machine that has totally run out of space. It was a mistake in
> the first place to have such a small drive in there (4gb), but it was
> intended to be only used for web surfing, email, and possibly some MS
> Office work. I happened to have all the spare parts on hand to build this
> machine, and the biggest drive I had lying around was 4gb.
>
> A few years have passed, and now we're constantly having space problems.
> I bought an 80gb WD drive, slaved it in, and used the WD utility that came
> with the drive to copy the entire partition to the new drive. Then I
> pulled the old 4gb drive out, set the 80gb to be the master (cable select,
> actually - and it correctly shows up as the primary master). Wouldn't
> boot. Ok, not too surprising, I figured I would have to fixmbr and
> fixboot. I stuck the XP Pro CD in, loaded the recovery console, did a
> fixmbr, and then fixboot.
>
> Now things started to get hairy. I got an error stating "FIXBOOT cannot
> find the system drive, or the drive specified is not valid". Uh oh.
> Tried "fixboot c:", and that reported success. However, when I rebooted
> the machine, it didn't work. Looks on IDE-0 for boot information and says
> "not found."
>
> So, what now? Is there no way to copy everything over to the new drive
> and just chuck the old one? I can also leave it in as a slave, if that
> works. But I want to get the system running off the new drive, so the
> system drive has some free space on it. How do I do this?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Sincerely,
> -Josh
>

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