HDD Booting Problem

DiscoDave

DiscoDave

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Hey all,

At the moment I have three hard drives:

1 x 80GB (Now spare, was used for Linux)
1 x 200GB (Spare, for downloads etc)
1 x 500GB (Primary hard disk has OS and applications installed on)

For some reason when I boot into Windows It has to look on my 80GB drive first. I took out my 80GB to put into another machine and couldn't get into Windows. it came up with a "DISK ERROR".

After that incident I put the HDD back in and put the boot sequence back again (80GB, then 500GB, then 200GB).

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I'm guessing its because the 80GB hard drive is being labeled as system.

Does anyone know what I can do so that I can remote the 80GB and put the booting in the correct order?

Thanks

David
 
Its because you have your windows drive third in your install so the windows boot loader info will be on your 80gb. Im guessing your 500gb is a sata and the others are ide?
 
UKDTweak said:
Its because you have your windows drive third in your install so the windows boot loader info will be on your 80gb. Im guessing your 500gb is a sata and the others are ide?
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My 200GB and 500GB drives are on SATA, the 80GB one is on IDE.

is there a way to move the bootloader onto my 500GB HDD?

Thanks

David
 
You can manually move it but you need to alter the boot.ini file and edit other details on the system, never done it before myself as one wrong line and the system wont boot, and im not sure it would work, best thing to do is remove the ide drive and re-install on the sata.
 
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