b11_ said:
When I boot partition D then open the disk utility that comes with Wxp, I see
that partition C is the System Partition and partition D is the BOOT
partition. What should I do so that partition D is both the System Partition
and the Boot Partition?
Copy the System files boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com to the from the
current System to the Boot partition then mark the Boot partition
active. The Active partition is always the System partition.
If the partitions are on the same disk the boot.ini file should boot the
installation without changes. Nonetheless, before you do this, and if
you have a floppy diskette, you should make a floppy boot disk with an
all purpose boot.ini file and test the disk to see if it can boot the
Windows installation.
By copying the files (above) instead of moving them, should things not
work you can change things around by marking the "C:" partition active
again, there are different, relatively easy methods of doing this on a
non booting system. For this to work the current boot partition must
have an NT Boot sector, it must have been formated using an NT operating
system. If the current boot partition does not have an NT boot sector
one can easily be written to it with the Recovery Console's fixboot command.
John