On 1/11/2010 2:15 AM On a whim, Pegasus [MVP] pounded out on the keyboard
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> "Terry R."<(E-Mail Removed)> said this in news item
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>> On 1/9/2010 2:02 PM On a whim, Pegasus [MVP] pounded out on the keyboard
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>>> "Terry R."<(E-Mail Removed)> said this in news item
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>>>> Yesterday I was looking at an HP Pavilion computer that suddenly stopped
>>>> booting for a new client. Windows would start, flash a blue screen and
>>>> restart. I loaded Bart PE and could view the data on both drives. I
>>>> noticed that one smaller drive (Samsung) had Windows/Program Files/etc
>>>> on
>>>> it, and the 2nd larger drive (WDC) did also. The client had said
>>>> someone
>>>> else installed a new drive in the machine, which I assumed was the
>>>> larger
>>>> drive (I was wrong).
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>>>> So I switched the boot options to boot from the 2nd drive (Samsung),
>>>> since
>>>> there are two drives in the machine. Then XP MC loaded. The larger
>>>> drive
>>>> (WDC) was assigned as C: and the smaller drive (Samsung) as J:. Windows
>>>> was using C: even though I set it to boot from the Samsung. If I
>>>> restarted
>>>> and set the boot to the WDC, it failed. Setting it back to the Samsung,
>>>> it
>>>> booted and I looked at Disk Management and found that the WDC was listed
>>>> as System and Samsung was listed as Active. I removed all the Windows
>>>> files, Program Files, and root files from the Samsung and it still boots
>>>> correctly.
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>>>> It boots okay but it still seems backwards. Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Terry R.
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>>> Hard to say since it is unclear from your description what exactly you
>>> did
>>> when you "switched boot options". Where did you switch them, what were
>>> they
>>> before and what were they after? Which disk is the master disk, which is
>>> the
>>> slave disk, which partions are active?
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>> There is an option on the HP startup screen "Boot options". You can switch
>> from there. Selecting the drive that has Windows on it fails to boot.
>> Selecting the other drive boots.
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>> Terry R.
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> Since you answered only one out of the five questions I asked, I am unable
> to comment any further. On the other you appear to have a working system -
> is there a specific question for which you need an answer?
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Actually, if you read what I first stated, you would see you only have
one unanswered question. But even that is basically answered in the last
line of my first paragraph.
Terry R.
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