How do I change the drive Windows XP boots from - Dual Boot

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Did you:
make Home drive active?
change the rdisk number from 1 to 0 for the Home drive in boot.ini?
add ntldr and ntdetect.com to the Home drive?
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Ron Sommer

"Rickalders" <Rickalders@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have 2 installations of Windows on a laptop. Currently, the 1st HDD (C:
> drive - permanently mounted) contains Windows XP Professional. The 2nd HDD
> (D: drive - mounted in the expansion bay) contains Windows XP Home. The
> 2nd
> HDD was added new at a much later time. Both are installed as cable
> select.
>
> Currently, the machine will boot into XP Pro normally if the 2nd
> (expansion
> bay) drive is removed. My goal is to switch the location of the HDDs and
> permanently install my 2nd drive (XP Home) making it the primary drive. I
> want to have the XP Pro drive mounted in the expansion bay because I don't
> use it very often.
>
> Simply, I want to swap the locations of the drives so I can use the CD-ROM
> with XP Home.
>
> So far I have attempted, without success, to physically switch the
> location
> of the 2 drives, then use the Windows Repair Console (from and external
> USB
> CD-ROM) and BOOTCFG to rebuild the boot.ini file. After I did this, I had
> my
> XP Home install in the machine by itself but it wouldn't successfully boot
> unless I reinstalled the HDD containing XP Pro. Is there a way to switch
> these HDDs and get my machine to sucessfully start the XP Home install
> without needing the XP Pro install in the machine? Unfortunately,
> formatting/reinstalling either OS is not an option.
>
> Thanks for any and all help.
>
> Rick