The old drive porbably contained a few important files, which you destroyed,
specifically:
NTDETECT.COM, NTLDR, BOOT.INI
Thes must appear on the first partition of the first drive seen by the BIOS
for XP to boot. The first two files can be copied from the XP CDROM, or
from any PC running the same verison of XP. The third file is somewhat
specific to your PC, but all it really does is point to where XP is
installed. A copy of the BOOT.INI file for my PC follows, not that I have a
simple case of XP installed on C:\. Disk(0)partition(1) is C:\. If XP is
on your second hard drive, then it would be Disk(1)... I seeem to recall
that you can get the XP recovery console, run form the XP CDROM, to make a
new BOOT.INI file for you. Check the help for FIXBOOT by entering the
recovery console and typing "FIXBOOT /?", without the quotes. For general
help, type HELP.
[boot loader]
timeout =15
default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect
"mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:05d501c3d3e7$23719be0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am having problems booting XP. I just bought a new hard
> drive, put it as a slave, and after formating it,
> installed XP on it. I then had two versions of XP, one on
> the new drive, and one on the old. I booted from the new
> and it booted fine. I then reformated the old drive and
> tried to boot from the new, and now i get a message saying
> error booting OS. I've already tried using bootdisks to re-
> install windows using the current partition, and it does
> it's thing, loads the initialization files from the CD,
> reboots, and just sits there. any ideas? any info would be
> great.
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