Computer Forums - View Single Post

Infinite · 01-28-2008, 05:12 PM

Sorry, I still can't get it to work. And your advice doesn't make a whole pile of sense.

I looked for an option to boot from an sata first in the bios, but there was none.

Plus I don't know how I'm supposed to copy the old files to the new HD if I deleted the old partition.

In the windows XP setup it says this:

Partition1 (d: ) 250 gb (new hd)
Unpartitioned space 8 mb

Unpartitioned space 80 gb (old hd)

So if my boot.ini was saved on the C: drive (which I deleted), how can I get it to boot from the D: drive which has a fresh windows xp install on it?

Edit: Okay I now see that in the windows setup it is recognizing the new drive as the C: drive.

01-28-2008, 05:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
Infinite Newb Techie Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 49	Re: Disk Boot Failure Sorry, I still can't get it to work. And your advice doesn't make a whole pile of sense. I looked for an option to boot from an sata first in the bios, but there was none. Plus I don't know how I'm supposed to copy the old files to the new HD if I deleted the old partition. In the windows XP setup it says this: Partition1 (d: ) 250 gb (new hd) Unpartitioned space 8 mb Unpartitioned space 80 gb (old hd) So if my boot.ini was saved on the C: drive (which I deleted), how can I get it to boot from the D: drive which has a fresh windows xp install on it? Edit: Okay I now see that in the windows setup it is recognizing the new drive as the C: drive. Last edited by Infinite; 01-28-2008 at 05:23 PM.