mart2001
February 13th, 2007, 06:23 PM
Hi all,
I have a problem - my boot partition is on one disk (disk A), and my OS files are on another (disk B), and I want to consolidate onto disk B.
When I installed XP on this PC I had disk A with an existing XP from an old machine, and disk B which was brand new. I wanted to keep the data on Disk A, and had no ability to mount it somewhere and get the data off it.
So, and I now wonder why I did this, I ran the XP installer and allowed it to use Disk A as the boot drive for the new installation (the boot loader now has two instances of XP, the old one - which is set up for an entirely different PC - and my new one), but told it I wanted XP installed on the new drive.
This effectively means that I must have both drives to boot the new PC. Disk A boots, and Disk B has the OS files. Disk A shows up as C: and Disk B shows up as D: - my OS files are on D: - e.g. D:\WINNT etc.
Now that I have Disk Director 10 I'd like to remove Disk A altogether.
So I unplugged disk A, and had the system boot into OS Selector from Disk B - that's pretty cool. OS Selector shows my OS but says 'Error: boot partition is missing'. That's because it's on Disk A, which I've disconnected.
So.. Is there a way to create a 'boot partition' on Disk B, and what are the steps I'd have to go through?
Thanks for wading through this - all help very gratefully received.
Cheers,
Martin
** stop press ** I just reconnected Disk A, to go back to normal, and now I get "NTLDR is missing" and it won't boot. This would have applied: if it ain't broke don't fix it!
So now I;m thinking about following http://www.short-media.com/articles/repair_windows_xp - and hoping that this takes me to where I want to be without re-installing the OS. I may be back here asking how to get my only partition to show up as D: ...
I have a problem - my boot partition is on one disk (disk A), and my OS files are on another (disk B), and I want to consolidate onto disk B.
When I installed XP on this PC I had disk A with an existing XP from an old machine, and disk B which was brand new. I wanted to keep the data on Disk A, and had no ability to mount it somewhere and get the data off it.
So, and I now wonder why I did this, I ran the XP installer and allowed it to use Disk A as the boot drive for the new installation (the boot loader now has two instances of XP, the old one - which is set up for an entirely different PC - and my new one), but told it I wanted XP installed on the new drive.
This effectively means that I must have both drives to boot the new PC. Disk A boots, and Disk B has the OS files. Disk A shows up as C: and Disk B shows up as D: - my OS files are on D: - e.g. D:\WINNT etc.
Now that I have Disk Director 10 I'd like to remove Disk A altogether.
So I unplugged disk A, and had the system boot into OS Selector from Disk B - that's pretty cool. OS Selector shows my OS but says 'Error: boot partition is missing'. That's because it's on Disk A, which I've disconnected.
So.. Is there a way to create a 'boot partition' on Disk B, and what are the steps I'd have to go through?
Thanks for wading through this - all help very gratefully received.
Cheers,
Martin
** stop press ** I just reconnected Disk A, to go back to normal, and now I get "NTLDR is missing" and it won't boot. This would have applied: if it ain't broke don't fix it!
So now I;m thinking about following http://www.short-media.com/articles/repair_windows_xp - and hoping that this takes me to where I want to be without re-installing the OS. I may be back here asking how to get my only partition to show up as D: ...