XP Boot Problem

From: Charles (Charles_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:29:01 -0800

Good afternoon,

I recently built a new computer for myself and I took the hard drive from my
old computer which has Win2K installed on it. I booted up in Win2K and from
there installed a fresh copy of WinXP Pro on my brand new hard drive. In my
BIOS setting I still had the hard drive with Win2K on it as the boot device
and when boots up, I have option of running Win2K or WinXP Pro. The Win2K is
installed on the C: drive and the WinXP Pro is installed on the E: drive.
The problem is that I changed my boot device to the new hard drive with
WinXP Pro on it and the machine reports the generic message that there is no
boot device. I found out the "boot.ini", "NTDETECT.COM", and "ntldr" files
were missing from my Windows directory on the WinXP Pro hard drive. I copied
these over and this is what the boot.ini file looks like:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect

So, in short I cannot boot WinXP solely from the hard drive it is installed
on, the hard drive on which Win2K is installed must be the boot device, and
from there I can boot WinXP Pro. How do I resolve this issue so that I can
boot cleanly off of the WinXP Pro hard drive?

Thank you,
Charles

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