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Existing set up: Intel desktop running XP Pro SP1, with two hard
drives, primary drive with boot sector, operating system, etc., and
secondary drive for data storage, both formated as NTFS.
I want to remove the pimary drive (to install in a different
computer); turn my current secondary drive into the primary drive;
and install a new empty drive as a new secondary drive. The current
secondary drive contains data that I don't want to loose.
Using MaxBlast3 (the Maxtor program that came with a new drive), I
copied all the files from my current primary drive onto my current
secondary drive. Then I moved the secondary drive to the primary
position and tried to boot, but I get a "Cannot find boot sector"
message. The MaxBlast3 program will show the MBR partition table for
the drive, which in the "Bootable" column says "FALSE."
Apparently I failed to properly copy the boot information/sector onto
the original secondary drive. The MaxBlast3 software will allow me
to create a new sector on the drive, but I am afraid that I will
loose data if I do, so I haven't tried that yet. Even if I did to
that successfully, how would I get the boot information into the new
sector?
Any ideas out there? Thanks!!
Existing set up: Intel desktop running XP Pro SP1, with two hard
drives, primary drive with boot sector, operating system, etc., and
secondary drive for data storage, both formated as NTFS.
I want to remove the pimary drive (to install in a different
computer); turn my current secondary drive into the primary drive;
and install a new empty drive as a new secondary drive. The current
secondary drive contains data that I don't want to loose.
Using MaxBlast3 (the Maxtor program that came with a new drive), I
copied all the files from my current primary drive onto my current
secondary drive. Then I moved the secondary drive to the primary
position and tried to boot, but I get a "Cannot find boot sector"
message. The MaxBlast3 program will show the MBR partition table for
the drive, which in the "Bootable" column says "FALSE."
Apparently I failed to properly copy the boot information/sector onto
the original secondary drive. The MaxBlast3 software will allow me
to create a new sector on the drive, but I am afraid that I will
loose data if I do, so I haven't tried that yet. Even if I did to
that successfully, how would I get the boot information into the new
sector?
Any ideas out there? Thanks!!