how do I tell which has the 30mb dell partition? is there some disk ID I can correlate from the bartpe output to the physical drive? or with CS...
sadly, nope, no such option.
ok, with jumpers set to CS, and doing both drives, I tried both combinations of harddrives on each end of the cable. Same results as before, in...
dell 2400, about, oh, 3 to 4 years old. I can try CS, i'll do that now and post results. When I try booting just one HD, it forces me to go...
well, with either harddrive disconnected, it won't boot at all...it hangs with a mesage to go into setup...where the harddrive configuration keeps...
no floppy, although I do have a USB floppy. Boots from the harddrive in general (although of course I can set the boot sequence at boot time to...
i'll open up the box later tonight and power off each harddrive in turn and see what happens in terms of booting and such. I'm not sure which...
ok, boot.ini has [boot loader] default = multi(0) disk(0) rdisk(1) partition(1) \window [operating systems] multi(0) disk(0) rdisk(1)...
ok, i've ready the thread and can see how I'd have problems. From what I recall, I think I ended up with windows on drive D - this is my kids'...
1. done 2. done 3. done 4. this shows as drive D, not C. Support = "main part", size = 76GB, num = 1 if that is important 5. done 6. Wasn't...
ok, I googled bartpe and found that. I'll have to try it out later today. Will that let me correct the problem, or just let me verify it?...
I'm knowledgeable enough to boot from cd instead of HD, and do a clean install on a repartitioned/reformatted hard drive(s), so that would be easy...
thanks...what's the best way to make it bootable? reload windows? fool around with boot.ini? do some kind of /mbr commands? I know just enough to...
ok, thanks for clarifying what more you need. I'm relatively new to all this. I have XP, and I haven't tried any "repair" install. Is this an...
No one has any ideas? This will take me days to reload/reinstall/configure this PC, and its so frustrating since I have a full backup (I think)...
OK, i'm new to TI, and I'm sure I made some newbie mistakes (unfortunately, after having this problem, I found this forum and read and printed out...
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