"Agent Smith" wrote in message
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> Hello.
> I have a computer with two physical disks. The first disk had win98
> installed on it and several data partitions. The 2nd disk has XP and a
> few
> more partitions. Well my first disk died a couple days ago.
> Unfortunately,
> since it had the boot files on it, now I can not boot into the 2nd disk
> with
> XP on it. Is there any way to manually add the necessary boot files to my
> 2nd disk so I can just boot to XP with it? I would like to avoid a
> complete
> reinstallation if possible.
>
> Thx for any advice.
Simplest solution is to boot from your xp cd and do a repair install. Follow
the prompts, setup will detect your currant install and ask you if you would
like to repair or reinstall. Select repair.

-nos1eep

Nos1eep, , the dyslexic, tarnished butt reamer,
and piglet drover, inculcated:

> "Agent Smith" wrote in message
> news:T9WGd.921745$2W1.71328@news.easynews.com...
>> Hello.
>> I have a computer with two physical disks. The first disk had win98
>> installed on it and several data partitions. The 2nd disk has XP
>> and a few
>> more partitions. Well my first disk died a couple days ago.
>> Unfortunately,
>> since it had the boot files on it, now I can not boot into the 2nd
>> disk with
>> XP on it. Is there any way to manually add the necessary boot files
>> to my 2nd disk so I can just boot to XP with it? I would like to
>> avoid a complete
>> reinstallation if possible.
>>
>> Thx for any advice.
> Simplest solution is to boot from your xp cd and do a repair install.
> Follow the prompts, setup will detect your currant install and ask
> you if you would like to repair or reinstall. Select repair.
>
> -nos1eep

You complete ****ing imbecile.




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"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote in message
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>
> "Agent Smith" wrote in message
> news:T9WGd.921745$2W1.71328@news.easynews.com...
>> Hello.
>> I have a computer with two physical disks. The first disk had win98
>> installed on it and several data partitions. The 2nd disk has XP and a
> few
>> more partitions. Well my first disk died a couple days ago.
> Unfortunately,
>> since it had the boot files on it, now I can not boot into the 2nd disk
> with
>> XP on it. Is there any way to manually add the necessary boot files to
>> my
>> 2nd disk so I can just boot to XP with it? I would like to avoid a
> complete
>> reinstallation if possible.
>>
>> Thx for any advice.
>>
>
> If WinXP was on drive D: then you must continue running it
> on drive D:. After removing your first disk, drive D: may have
> become drive C:, thus making it impossible for WinXP to run,
> even if you had the boot files. Before anyone can assist you,
> you need to state the drive letters you had before your first
> disk failed, and what disks you have available now.

Hello, thanks for all the replies.
Yes, XP was on my D drive as you suspected. I went into the repair mode off
of the XP CD and indeed it thinks my XP is now installed on C. I haven't
gone through with the repair yet though. I also have 3 other partitions on
that disk + 2 CD drives. Here is the before and after (DISK0 is the now
dead disk, and DISK1 is the one that is still good):

Before:

DISK 0 -- C: -- fat32 (win98 install)
DISK 1 -- D: -- NTFS (winXP install)
DISK 0 -- E: -- fat32
DISK 0 -- F: -- fat32
DISK 1 -- G: -- fat32
DISK 1 -- I: -- fat32
DISK 1 -- Q: -- NTFS

After:

DISK 1 -- C: -- NTFS (winXP install)
DISK 1 -- D: -- NTFS (formerly Q
DISK 1 -- E: -- fat32 (formerly G
DISK 1 -- F: -- fat32 (formerly I

I'm not as worried about the last three drives changing letters as I used
them mainly for documents and games, and I can always go through the
registry later and change anything I need to point to the new drive. I just
need to get XP running somehow if possible. Thanks for the help. :-)

If you can get your hands on Partition Magic, create a small, primary
partition out of empty space on your XP partition; this will force the XP
partition to D:. If you don't have Partition Magic, try to get Symantec
Ghost. Ghost the XP partition to an image file (good backup, anyway),
then repartition your hard drive as above, then Ghost the image file back
to the partition.




"Agent Smith" wrote in
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> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote in message
> news:O810WkO$EHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Agent Smith" wrote in message
>> news:T9WGd.921745$2W1.71328@news.easynews.com...
>>> Hello.
>>> I have a computer with two physical disks. The first disk had win98
>>> installed on it and several data partitions. The 2nd disk has XP
>>> and a
>> few
>>> more partitions. Well my first disk died a couple days ago.
>> Unfortunately,
>>> since it had the boot files on it, now I can not boot into the 2nd
>>> disk
>> with
>>> XP on it. Is there any way to manually add the necessary boot files
>>> to my
>>> 2nd disk so I can just boot to XP with it? I would like to avoid a
>> complete
>>> reinstallation if possible.
>>>
>>> Thx for any advice.
>>>
>>
>> If WinXP was on drive D: then you must continue running it
>> on drive D:. After removing your first disk, drive D: may have
>> become drive C:, thus making it impossible for WinXP to run,
>> even if you had the boot files. Before anyone can assist you,
>> you need to state the drive letters you had before your first
>> disk failed, and what disks you have available now.
>
> Hello, thanks for all the replies.
> Yes, XP was on my D drive as you suspected. I went into the repair
> mode off of the XP CD and indeed it thinks my XP is now installed on
> C. I haven't gone through with the repair yet though. I also have 3
> other partitions on that disk + 2 CD drives. Here is the before and
> after (DISK0 is the now dead disk, and DISK1 is the one that is still
> good):
>
> Before:
>
> DISK 0 -- C: -- fat32 (win98 install)
> DISK 1 -- D: -- NTFS (winXP install)
> DISK 0 -- E: -- fat32
> DISK 0 -- F: -- fat32
> DISK 1 -- G: -- fat32
> DISK 1 -- I: -- fat32
> DISK 1 -- Q: -- NTFS
>
> After:
>
> DISK 1 -- C: -- NTFS (winXP install)
> DISK 1 -- D: -- NTFS (formerly Q
> DISK 1 -- E: -- fat32 (formerly G
> DISK 1 -- F: -- fat32 (formerly I
>
> I'm not as worried about the last three drives changing letters as I
> used them mainly for documents and games, and I can always go through
> the registry later and change anything I need to point to the new
> drive. I just need to get XP running somehow if possible. Thanks for
> the help. :-)
>
>