Re: Changing My Designated System Partition

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From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 06:02:39 -0500

Hi Andrew,

Here is what I would do: Remove the old drive from the system. Move the new
one into the master position, set the BIOS to boot it, then boot with the XP
CD and run a repair installation on the new one. 

-- 
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Andrew Johnston" <andrewjnycx@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message 
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> Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If the new one does not allow you to set it as the active partition, then 
>> it already is. If you check the old one, you may find that there is now 
>> an option to make it the active one.
>>
>
> The option to make the partition active is greyed out on the old drive, 
> which is once again the system partition. The new drive has two 
> partitions, and the only one which offers the option of making it active 
> is the one that doesn't have XP on it. This is really driving me bananas. 
> I manually created a boot.ini on the new drive and made sure it had 
> NTDETECT.com and NTLDR on it, then deleted those files off the old drive. 
> When I did so, the machine refused to boot and, in the recovery console, 
> told me I had no Boot.ini whatsoever when I ran bootcfg commands. I think 
> that's the key to the problem--for whatever reason, the machine refuses to 
> look for those files anywhere other than the old drive, no matter how many 
> times I do a fixboot or a fixmbr. This is really driving me bananas...

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