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mex — 29 Jul 2004 10:45

Subject: geek puzzle

My friend in berlin has two hard drives in his machine and somehow he has a differant version of XP on each one. He has to use the one he doesn´t want to use to boot the one he does want to use! If he takes the one he doesn´t want to use out, it doesn´t boot at all and doesn´t boot from the CD rom either. If he puts the one he doesn´t want to use back it then boots from the cd rom! Is there a way to copy the boot sector (NTLDR) from one hardrive to the other?

fix — 29 Jul 2004 15:01

Subject: Re: geek puzzle

I would get a new hard drive, bin the others and buy a new copy of XP.

grix — 29 Jul 2004 22:21

Subject: Re: geek puzzle

take one out - make sure the one left in is configured as a master not slave (jumper on the hardrive near the power and ide connectors) cdrom should be slave boot from a windows system floppy (you can make one when you format a floppy in windows) when you have booted from the floppy type, fdisk /mbr reinstall xp put the second hardrive in on the second ide connector as a master and reformat it

mex — 29 Jul 2004 22:38

Subject: Re: Re: geek puzzle

Cheers, I'll suggest that.

mex — 29 Jul 2004 22:44

Subject: Re: Re: geek puzzle

However, switching on the computer with the no boot sector hard drive in the machine (set as primary master) seems to disable the cdrom! It didn't work with knoppix in it

grix — 30 Jul 2004 00:09

Subject: Re: Re: Re: geek puzzle

is the cdrom set as slave? is it on the same ide connector as the hard drive or the secondary one? does the bios recognise the cdrom on boot?

mex — 30 Jul 2004 09:20

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: geek puzzle

set as primary slave, on the same ide cable but the bios does not recognise it on boot

grix — 30 Jul 2004 10:01

Subject: take that hard disk out and try the other one with the cdrom

mex — 30 Jul 2004 13:17

Subject: Re: take that hard disk out and try the other one with the cdrom

made a boot floppy and started from that but when we typed fdisk /mbr and fdisk/mbr we got Bad command or file name

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