Re: Moving an XP Pro installation to a new hard drive
From: Cleiber (clbgld_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/29/04
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:55:21 GMT
The easiest way I know of is to open up boot.ini (a hidden file on the boot
drive's root directory - you have to have "show hidden files" selected in
the folder options) with Notepad and remove the offending lines. Make a copy
of the original boot.ini file or rename it (saving it as boot.old or
boot.001 or something like that) before or right after you open it in
Notepad, just in case something goes wrong. *Make sure* your backup file is
there, open the boot file, take the extra lines out, make sure it looks OK
and then save it as boot.ini. Microsoft has info on its website about
boot.ini.
Cleiber
"Joshua Beall" <jbeall@donotspam.remove.me.heraldic.us> wrote in message
news:J3Agd.121$7W.111@trnddc08...
> Well, I actually got it working, but now I have a different sort of
problem.
> While struggling to get things working, I managed to add 2 duplicate
entries
> in the boot menu. So now you are provided with a list of 3 operatings
> systems to choose from when starting the machine: XP Pro, XP Pro, or
Windows
> XP Professional.
>
> How do I get rid of two XP Pro boot entries? I added them using "bootcfg
> /add" and "bootcfg /rebuild" while logged into the recovery console. But
I
> looked at the other options for bootcfg, and none of them *deletes* an
> entry. How do I do that?
>
> -Josh
>
> "Joshua Beall" <jbeall@donotspam.remove.me.heraldic.us> wrote in message
> news:52zgd.3313$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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