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.

On Dec 17, 1:42*pm, arealmes <areal...@discussions.microsoft.com>
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.

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.


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