Formatted c: after installing new OS on e:
Formatted c: after installing new OS on e:
(OP)
Hi,
I have two hard drives. I had xp installed on c: (is the old hard drive, primary master ide0)
I installed xp on e: (is the new hard drive, secondary master ide1)
What have I done:
after installing a working XP-os on e:, set all the right parameters, I formatted C....(well done..) because I wanted to use this old hard drive for other data.
So, after restarting windows wouldn't boot anymore, because my MBR was probably deleted?
my question is:
Besides changing the drives into primary and secondary master and installing a new copy of XP on the new harddrive what else can I do?
Many thanks in advance
I have two hard drives. I had xp installed on c: (is the old hard drive, primary master ide0)
I installed xp on e: (is the new hard drive, secondary master ide1)
What have I done:
after installing a working XP-os on e:, set all the right parameters, I formatted C....(well done..) because I wanted to use this old hard drive for other data.
So, after restarting windows wouldn't boot anymore, because my MBR was probably deleted?
my question is:
Besides changing the drives into primary and secondary master and installing a new copy of XP on the new harddrive what else can I do?
Many thanks in advance





RE: Formatted c: after installing new OS on e:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
TTFN
RE: Formatted c: after installing new OS on e:
Where in this case disk = ide1 ?
something like
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
so, default is pointing to an empty c-drive, disk(0), with no os, with no timeout for a multiboot, therefore it is not booting and asking for a missing .ini file? Because I formatted the C-drive or am I confusing u now?
RE: Formatted c: after installing new OS on e:
c: and e:, both in system
install xp on e:
This would leave the bootloader and boot.ini on c:, both of which you need. The bootloader is located on track0 and is what actually goes and reads boot.ini to find the OS.
I think the simplest thing is to re-configure e: as c: and re-install.
TTFN
RE: Formatted c: after installing new OS on e: