changing boot drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup () I started with Windows 2000 system installed on one drive. Installed a second drive (as a slave device on the same IDE controller) Installed Windows Server 2003 on the second drive....

XP home on the 'C' drive. I now no longer want XP Home and have changed the 'C' drive to 'J' losing access to Home as a result. I now want to change the XP Professional drive (the boot drive for XP Professional) from 'F' to 'C' - as you know 'C'...

try and switch my boot drive of E: to C: thru regedit. i sucessfully changed the reg key, rebooted and now the computer wont load. oh, i exported the original keys for a backup before i did any of this. i know changing the boot drive wont always work, as shown...

that changing the drive letter of the boot drive/partition will render your system unbootable, don't you? You cannot change the boot drive with any utility. Bobby "Howard" wrote in message news:B36B5B08-0706-4B73-84DA-9CC2F29BA02E@microsoft.com......

as a backup and would like to be able to dual boot. This is XP Pro. I cannot boot from the 2nd hard. If I disable the primary drive by removing the power plug I am able to boot from the 2nd HD. The computer sees everything and I can use all the partitions....

up my source drive with driveimage.xml (). Then, to test my backup, restored that image to another drive, and when booting that drive got the "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" message. -This was even after I set the new drive (where...

do NOT want that to be your old drive! 5. Reboot. Go directly into BIOS Setup again and change the Boot Priority so it boots from the new C: drive you just created on the new HDD unit attached to SATA0. Save and Exit, and it should boot from that new drive...

sincerely Tanya p.s. i do not understand why the drive refers to dos-compatibility mode when there is no diskette in the drive? Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion () Your description is quite hard to follow. When you boot,...

and my older 160Gb IDE drive. I want the option of two HDD (each with different a OS) and be able select the system I want to boot from. How can I do this? I have been told that it can be done by changing the Boot settings in BIOS, but I has also been told...

BIOS Features" page: Check "Boot Devices" and the "HD Boot Priority" items to be sure your drive is there; if you have a floppy hooked up, I always recommend your boot order be: Floppy, CDROM, HardDrive; there are a couple recovery options to fix a screwed...