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Hi, a couple of weeks ago, some of you out there helped me add a new HD to my system. I loaded XP home on to the new drive and validated it. Then transfered all the bits and pieces I wanted from the old drive. So far so good.
Now I want to physically remove the old drive. When I do this and leave the new one in. It won't load. I've checked the jumper to make sure it's in the right place, but nothing.
Now I'm back with both drives on cable select. The thing fires up and lets me chose which drive I want to open. Could my problem be the old drive is C and the new one D?
Thanks for taking the time to read this post and I hope you have a good weekend.
Best Regards James.
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you need to install the XP bootloader to the second drive

you can do this by removing the old drive and booting off your xp cd (cant remember what the exact command is)
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Dont worry i double posted
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Thanks, would this be a one time thing? Will it start ok next time?
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No, doesn't work. If I remove the old drive and start from XP disk/recovery it only gives me the option to start in C, no option for D.
When I put the old drive back in it won't let me change it's drive letter. So I'm stuck at the moment.
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wierd.

shouldnt you have done this in the first place?

- instaleld clean xp on new drive (master)
- plugged in old drive as slave
- copied files to new system
- removed old drive

thats the way ive always done it
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Thats more or less how I did it. New HD went on as Slave. Loaded clean XP to it and transferred bits over. Changed slave [new HD] to master and master [old HD] to slave.
All works fine. Until you remove old drive
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you should never install XP to a slave as it screws up the bootloader, which is the problem you now face
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I guess I could format and load a clean copy of XP on to the old drive and start again.
Thanks for your help. James.
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There should be an easier way.

If only one drive is installed, whether it is jumpered as master or slave, the BIOS calls it C:. So it is appearing. Now you just need to add the boot sector (which is what that command is). I believe it is a menu item called "Make disk bootable".

Or you could just reinstall Windows on the new C: drive, which will add the missing boot sector.
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