Changing channels on a hard drive

[microsoft]

go to control panel then system then advanced then open
startup and recovery click edit delete all text save.
then switch chanels and reboot

[Al Nagurski]

"microsoft" > wrote in message
...
> go to control panel then system then advanced then open
> startup and recovery click edit delete all text save.
> then switch chanels and reboot

First, thanks for your time and very quick response.

I tried this about 12 times, and about 10 different ways. No positive
results. Just to be sure that I'm doing this correctly, the procedure that
you gave me opens the boot.ini file, right? I delete the contents, leaving
boot.ini empty/blank. I save this now empty file, then shut down, then
change the IDE channels, then boot, yes?

[Peter Hutchison]

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 16:35:55 GMT, "Al Nagurski"
> wrote:

>"microsoft" > wrote in message
...
>> go to control panel then system then advanced then open
>> startup and recovery click edit delete all text save.
>> then switch chanels and reboot
>
>First, thanks for your time and very quick response.
>
>I tried this about 12 times, and about 10 different ways. No positive
>results. Just to be sure that I'm doing this correctly, the procedure that
>you gave me opens the boot.ini file, right? I delete the contents, leaving
>boot.ini empty/blank. I save this now empty file, then shut down, then
>change the IDE channels, then boot, yes?
>
Not quite as there is more that the boot.ini file, you need to refresh
the mbr and boot files on the system disk.
You can boot off the XP CD and goto the recovery console and enter
FIXMBR to repair the Master Boot Record and possible use DISKPART to
check that the current partition is set Active etc.

Peter Hutchison
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