2 Master Boot Records!!!

[Guest]

Making a disasterous story concise. I had a 20GB hard drive that was down to
only 5GB and was afraid of a potential crash senario. I went and purchased a
120GB hard drive as a replacement. The install proceedures I went through are
as follows: First I setup the new HD as a Slave and copied all data from the
Master onto it. As per directions I then set both HD's to Cable Select. (I am
leaving out all the openings,closings, power off's, on's and cords
disconnect's in between each step.) After all was completed I then made the
new HD the Master and left the original HD disconnected. After power up I got
a screen that requested that I choose between 2 "Windows (default)" boot
records even though there is only one HD connected. After that I re-connected
the original HD as a Slave in the hopes of correctiing the double boot
records. It has made no difference what-so-ever. If there is any hope of
returning to a normal boot-up please help an extremely desparate man!

 

[Guest]

I would install the new drive set as a master on the primary IDE channel and
the second drive set as a slave on the same cable.

Don't use Cable Select.

The master drive must do on the connector on the top of the cable and the
salve drive to the middle connector.

You could also install the old drive as a slave to a CD/DVD drive on the
secondary IDE channel on the motherboard. Also, try renaming the Windows
folder on the old drive something like XWindows.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

 

[Kerry Brown]

Making a disasterous story concise. I had a 20GB hard drive that was
down to only 5GB and was afraid of a potential crash senario. I went
and purchased a 120GB hard drive as a replacement. The install
proceedures I went through are as follows: First I setup the new HD
as a Slave and copied all data from the Master onto it. As per
directions I then set both HD's to Cable Select. (I am leaving out
all the openings,closings, power off's, on's and cords disconnect's
in between each step.) After all was completed I then made the new HD
the Master and left the original HD disconnected. After power up I
got a screen that requested that I choose between 2 "Windows
(default)" boot records even though there is only one HD connected.
After that I re-connected the original HD as a Slave in the hopes of
correctiing the double boot records. It has made no difference
what-so-ever. If there is any hope of returning to a normal boot-up
please help an extremely desparate man!

How did you copy all the data? Did you use an imaging program? Does the
computer boot OK from one of the choices when only the new drive is
installed? If it does then you may be able to edit boot.ini to remove the
reference to the other installation.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022

Be careful editing boot.ini. If you change the wrong thing the computer will
not boot at all.

The normal procedure is to set the new drive as a slave to the old one.
Clone the old drive to the new one. Do not reboot at this point, just power
down. Remove the old drive, set the new drive as master, then power up
computer. Once the new drive has been successfully booted from once you are
then free to power down and reinstall the old drive as a slave. At this
point you can use cable select or whatever method you like to set the
master/slave relationship. It sounds like you may have to redo the setup of
the new drive.

Kerry

 

[Guest]

Try going to Start>Run and type "msconfig" without quotes. Then select
BOOT.INI tab. Click the "Check all Boot Paths". There should be only one boot
path that is the good one. You can also go to ControlPanel>System>Advanced
Tab> Click Settings button under Startup and Recovery and select the default
OS to boot to...or click Edit and manually remove the lines containing the OS
you don't want to boot to.

 

[Frank]

Making a disasterous story concise. I had a 20GB hard drive that was
down to only 5GB and was afraid of a potential crash senario. I went
and purchased a 120GB hard drive as a replacement. The install
proceedures I went through are as follows: First I setup the new HD
as a Slave and copied all data from the Master onto it. As per
directions I then set both HD's to Cable Select. (I am leaving out
all the openings,closings, power off's, on's and cords disconnect's
in between each step.) After all was completed I then made the new HD
the Master and left the original HD disconnected. After power up I
got a screen that requested that I choose between 2 "Windows
(default)" boot records even though there is only one HD connected.
After that I re-connected the original HD as a Slave in the hopes of
correctiing the double boot records. It has made no difference
what-so-ever. If there is any hope of returning to a normal boot-up
please help an extremely desparate man!

Old out. New in as primary master. Boot from XP CD choose repair
enter password, type fixboot, when done, type fix MBR. Reboot the
system. Power down (unplug all power to PC) Return old HDD,
correctly jumpered. Boot up.
You may have other problems. If a 20GB drive came with your PC
it is probably old. Does your MB support a drive this big?

 

[Guest]

this person is using incorrect term!!
it's not a MBR problem!!
It has dual boot menu which is from his Boot.ini file!!!

 

[Jonny]

Not an MBR related problem.

My observation of effects, not your stated procedure, says you had both hard
drives connected after the copy procedure.

Good day, sir.

 

[beb]

Don't think you can just copy an operating system from one drive to another
and have it work. You should either image the old drive and tranfer it to
the new or install the op system on the new and transter the files and
setting from the old after installing the programs that you need to use the
files.

Not an MBR related problem.

My observation of effects, not your stated procedure, says you had both
hard
drives connected after the copy procedure.

Good day, sir.