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A couple weeks ago I decided that I needed some more room on my
computer, and since I had two installations of XP Pro (on different
Masters) so I figured I could get rid of my old one (which happened to
be the Primary Master).
Anyway, I loaded the XP cd to delete the partitions and create new
ones, but when I restarted I couldn't boot from my other install. I
tried a number of things like trying to get the drive letters back in
the old order, moving the secondary master into the primary position
and bootfix. Eventually I found bootcfg and it said I had no boot thing
defined, so I set that up, but it still wouldn't work.
My last resorts are to ask for some help because I have no idea what
I'm doing in this area, ask for some help on how to get access to My
Documents on the installation of XP that won't boot up (which is what
I'm after by doing this since they are protected), or take a chance and
run fixmbr on that drive and possibly make all the partitions
inaccessable.
So any help anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.
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Oujirou
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A couple weeks ago I decided that I needed some more room on my
computer, and since I had two installations of XP Pro (on different
Masters) so I figured I could get rid of my old one (which happened to
be the Primary Master).
Anyway, I loaded the XP cd to delete the partitions and create new
ones, but when I restarted I couldn't boot from my other install. I
tried a number of things like trying to get the drive letters back in
the old order, moving the secondary master into the primary position
and bootfix. Eventually I found bootcfg and it said I had no boot thing
defined, so I set that up, but it still wouldn't work.
My last resorts are to ask for some help because I have no idea what
I'm doing in this area, ask for some help on how to get access to My
Documents on the installation of XP that won't boot up (which is what
I'm after by doing this since they are protected), or take a chance and
run fixmbr on that drive and possibly make all the partitions
inaccessable.
So any help anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.
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Oujirou
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Oujirou's Profile: http://forum.osnn.net/member.php?userid=6758
View this thread: http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php?t=47803