Re: Can't boot off of new SATA drive

If you installed WinXp on your first SATA drive, with your IDE drive
connected, the bootloader is located on the IDE drive and it redirects
the computer to the SATA drive.

I removed power for the IDE HD drive(s) before installing WinXp
and reinstalled it after setup was complete.

I chose the SATA drive as the boot drive in the BIOS.

My boot.ini reads as follows :

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professionnel" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /USEPMTIMER

No different from the one below as you will see.

Disconnect the IDE HD's and launching WinXp setup from the
install CD and choosing repair (the second instance - after selecting
"install" you should have that choice.


<mickeddie@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
1151785961.409336.287600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ah, missed that (or focused on the other stuff). That is because the
boot.ini file used by the Windows loader still lists the IDE drive as
the boot device. The boot.ini file uses physical parameters to describe
the boot drive (of where to find the rest of the OS that the loader
needs to find). A SATA drive would have completely different physical
parameters to describe in boot.ini how the loader (the boot sector in
the OS' partition) would find that drive. You probably something like
the following in boot.ini (which now a copy resides on the SATA drive,
too):

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional"

I have to re-read this post as I'm in a hurry, but real quick
quesiton...should I just edit the boot.ini file or repair a Win XP
install?

Also, I do NOT have a floppy drive installed (although I have one in my
basement...but I threw away my floppy disks).

Eddie



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