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boot after XP Pro format on 2nd hard drive
hey there, i formated my secondary hard drive that had windows XP Pro
installed on it. i formated it with XP Pro X64. after i formated it i tried to boot from it as primary, no luck, and it would boot before the format. how do i format it to its 80 gig a byte size with system on it to so that i can boot from it??? any help would be appreciated. |
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boot after XP Pro format on 2nd hard drive
On Dec 17, 1:42*pm, arealmes
wrote: hey there, i formated my secondary hard drive that had windows XP Pro installed on it. i formated it with XP Pro X64. *after i formated it i tried to boot from it as primary, no luck, and it would boot before the format. how do i format it to its 80 gig a byte size with system on it to so that i can boot from it??? any help would be appreciated. XP (no matter which type) will always over ride the MBR record on the first (aka primary) drive. Since you have installed the XP 64 in a "hopeful" dual-boot, the XP 64 version has taken over. You will now need to locate the info on how to manually add the XP Pro 32 boot info into the MBR "Boot.INI" controls. |
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boot after XP Pro format on 2nd hard drive
arealmes wrote:
hey there, i formated my secondary hard drive that had windows XP Pro installed on it. i formated it with XP Pro X64. after i formated it i tried to boot from it as primary, no luck, and it would boot before the format. how do i format it to its 80 gig a byte size with system on it to so that i can boot from it??? any help would be appreciated. When you format a drive whatever was there is gone. Including your XP Pro. If necessary, change the BIOS so you can boot from the CD drive, stick the XP CD in the CD drive, and install the OS. If/when you want to resize an existing bootable partition you need a 3rd party program. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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