Boot up to wrong drive

[rl.maggie]

When Win XP Pro SP3 boots it boots to drive D:

How do I change it to Boot to C:

Tried all the cmds in 'bootcfg'

Windows does not boot up at all.

txs

 

[Rich Barry]

Did you have a Dual Boot with WindowsX and WinXP??

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

When Win XP Pro SP3 boots it boots to drive D:

How do I change it to Boot to C:

Tried all the cmds in 'bootcfg'

Windows does not boot up at all.

txs

Did it always boot to drive D:? Ever since you installed Windows? If so then
that's it - you cannot change it.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

What drive is the windows operating system installed on?

When windows is installed you are asked where you want to install the files.
If you have a single hard drive with just one partition then you would
select the C: drive. If you have more than one drive/partition you may,
inadvertently, selected the D: drive (assuming you installed the operating
system in the first place.)

You say that Windows boots to drive D:. At the bottom of your post you then
say that 'Windows does not boot at all.' So were do we stand as of now? Is
it booting or not?

Is this a single drive/partition or are you dual booting with another
operating system? For that matter has Windows only just started trying to
access the D: drive to boot? If the D: drive is the bootable one what have
you got on the C: drive? If windows originally booted to the C: drive have
you been tampering with the boot order in the BIOS?

I think more information is actually needed.


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[dadiOH]

When Win XP Pro SP3 boots it boots to drive D:

Either this statement is incorrect...
____________

Windows does not boot up at all.

....or this one is.
_____________

Which is correct? And on what drive do you have Win XP Pro SP3?

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[Lil' Dave]

When Win XP Pro SP3 boots it boots to drive D:

How do I change it to Boot to C:

Tried all the cmds in 'bootcfg'

Windows does not boot up at all.

txs

Usually, what you're trying to explain is a question of semantics, both new
and old defintions of the word "boot".

Booting Windows, regarding XP, is on the partition where windows folder is
located. This, MS chose, is called the boot partition. In XP, the
partition where the actual boot files are located for initiating the
operating system, is always the "C:/" partition. This, MS chose, is called
the system partition. They may be both one and the same if windows was
installed in the "C:/" partition.

Formerly, even though previous windows operating systems also had the
ability to install the windows folder and such in an alternate partition,
the "C:/" partition was still called the boot partition. Technically, this
is accurate as the boot files are initiated in sequence from the bios
handover. This is the actual "boot" process.

Thus, we have a question of sematics as a result between the old and new
defintions as defined by Microsoft Corporation for boot partition and system
partition regarding the XP operating system. versus previously defined boot
partition universally understood.
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