Windows booting problem
Jan. 13th, 2008 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I have two hard drives. They both have installs of Windows XP on. I choose which one I boot to when I start up. Which is fine.
Except that the primary drive is about an inch from death. And if I take it out then the secondary drive doesn't boot at all - presumably because the boot record is on the primary drive.
A quick google indicates that I should boot to a recovery console and fun "fixboot" - however, when booting off the secondary drive, the drive with everything on it is labelled "I:" - if I fix the boot record, is this likely to stay the same, or will it suddenly be the C drive?
I'd like to have some idea of what I'm in for before I destroy my machine...
Except that the primary drive is about an inch from death. And if I take it out then the secondary drive doesn't boot at all - presumably because the boot record is on the primary drive.
A quick google indicates that I should boot to a recovery console and fun "fixboot" - however, when booting off the secondary drive, the drive with everything on it is labelled "I:" - if I fix the boot record, is this likely to stay the same, or will it suddenly be the C drive?
I'd like to have some idea of what I'm in for before I destroy my machine...
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Date: 2008-01-13 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-13 05:54 pm (UTC)But was worried that if I get direct booting working that it will think that said drive is actually called "C" and all of my programs will stop working...
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Date: 2008-01-13 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-13 06:02 pm (UTC)The only question now, is how to make this disk bootable!
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Date: 2008-01-13 08:03 pm (UTC)One thing to try is to change the boot record in msconfig to remove the faulty windows first then try to fixboot, although I must say it might completely rewrite the boot record and you lose all your data.
Microsoft is not very friendly to failing hard drives.
Disc magic
Date: 2008-01-14 06:39 pm (UTC)Backup first though
Remember its Windows
Backup