Wipe out other harddisks

[Alan T]

I got Vista installed on first harddisk on first SATA.
I have another harddisk on 2nd SATA, this harddisk has Win2K and WinXP
installed.
These 2 HD are in internal mobile rack.

Last night I boot up into Vista, there was a harddisk consistency check and
it delete and insert index to the 2nd harddisk.

Then I swapped both harddisks, I want to boot into XP, I selected the XP
option in dual boot menu, but it said there is
\winnt\system32\config\system
missing.

What can I do?

 

[Michael Solomon]

I got Vista installed on first harddisk on first SATA.
I have another harddisk on 2nd SATA, this harddisk has Win2K and WinXP
installed.
These 2 HD are in internal mobile rack.

Last night I boot up into Vista, there was a harddisk consistency check
and
it delete and insert index to the 2nd harddisk.

Then I swapped both harddisks, I want to boot into XP, I selected the XP
option in dual boot menu, but it said there is
\winnt\system32\config\system
missing.

What can I do?

With that hard disk still in the position it is in as the primary OS, boot
from the XP CD and run a repair install, that should restore the proper boot
files to that drive. I assume, based on what you have said, you are not
dual booting but swapping disks to boot to the specific OS.

If you are dual or multibooting, the above will wipe that out and you'd have
to run Vista's repair option from setup to restore the boot menu and the
ability to boot into the other OSs.

 

[Alan T]

Hi,

My situation is complicated:
- I have Win2K and XP dual boot originally in harddisk A (dual boot0
- bought second harddisk B to install Vista (single boot)
- put them in internal mobile rack
- I can swap the 'position' of the harddisk to boot into Vista or Win2K/XP
ie. if I put harddisk A in SATA 1 channel, I can boot into Win2K/XP
if I put harddisk B in SATA 1 channel, I can boot into Vista only
- the problem is last night when I boot into Vista, it found there was
problem in harddisks, then run repair and deleted/inserted indexes the
Win2K/XP harddisk also the boot sector.

I am not sure the Vista can repair harddisk A boot file.