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Hi all,
I have a system that dual boots Windows XP Home (master hard drive) and
Windows XP Pro (slave drive). I removed the master drive to put it into
another computer and would like the current pc to boot from the slave drive.
Adter a lot of fiddling around I have wiped the first HD and have learnt in
the process that it was this drive that was active and had the MBR on it - my
PC refuses to boot from the slave drive because it previously booted from the
master drive.
I think my problem now is that I need to set the slave drive as an active
partition but I don't know a way of doing this without booting Windows. Is
there any way I can do it from the recovery console?
For information I have run fixmbr, fixboot, bootcfg /rebuild from the
recovery console and have copied ntldr and ntdetect from the installation cd
but none of this solves my problem, I think because the partition is still
not set as active.
Any help appreciated,
Many thanks/
Hi all,
I have a system that dual boots Windows XP Home (master hard drive) and
Windows XP Pro (slave drive). I removed the master drive to put it into
another computer and would like the current pc to boot from the slave drive.
Adter a lot of fiddling around I have wiped the first HD and have learnt in
the process that it was this drive that was active and had the MBR on it - my
PC refuses to boot from the slave drive because it previously booted from the
master drive.
I think my problem now is that I need to set the slave drive as an active
partition but I don't know a way of doing this without booting Windows. Is
there any way I can do it from the recovery console?
For information I have run fixmbr, fixboot, bootcfg /rebuild from the
recovery console and have copied ntldr and ntdetect from the installation cd
but none of this solves my problem, I think because the partition is still
not set as active.
Any help appreciated,
Many thanks/