Wont boot after changing boot order

[gjwebber]

Hi,

Firstly i'll explain my current setup:

2x HDD - 1 IDE and 1 SATA
1x DVD RW

I have WinXP installed on the IDE hard drive. I bought a new SATA hard drive and installed Windows 7 on it. Everything works fine so far.

I'm now going to wipe the IDE hdd and use it for storage. The problem here is that it's set as the first boot device in the BIOS. When i change the SATA to the first boot device (and IDE 2nd) it won't boot, so i'm thinking if i format it Win7 i'm going to have problems as well.

How can i fix this?

Thanks,
Gareth

 

[gjwebber]

Thanks for the info, I'll have a go when i get home.

It's a pain, my ISP hasn't activated my line yet so can't get back online and report my findings till tomorrow!

 

[gjwebber]

I put the win7 disk in but it was totally different to XP. I assume XP is what has the fixboot command?

I tried the repair thing mentioned above, with all other disks disconnected. It found the problem (same one like 3 times in a row), but never actually fixed it!

I just formatted as it was a pretty new install, and that created the extra partition that was needed, so it's all working fine again now.