Boot Sector on wrong drive

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I have recently upgraded to XP Pro (from Win98)
I intended to install the new operating system on a new hard drive, leaving the old system intact (just in case)

The problem is the old drive now contains both boot sectors, with the XP operating system on the new hard drive. The problem now is that I cannot boot from the new hard drive and must still rely on the old hard drive.

Is it posible to make the new drive bootable, without having to reinstall XP?
 
Lets get this straight.. You have 98 on the old drive and
XP on the new drive? You are correct.....the boot files
will remain on the bootable drive (C: win98.
The problem is even if you got the new drive to boot as
the C: drive the registry is still pointing to the old
drive letter assignment.

Best bet is to format and start over. Pull out the old
drive completely and make the new drive the primary
master. Then install XP fresh. You can achieve this by
booting from the cd and following the installation
prompts.
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I have recently upgraded to XP Pro (from Win98)
I intended to install the new operating system on a new
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hard drive, leaving the old system intact (just in case)
The problem is the old drive now contains both boot
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sectors, with the XP operating system on the new hard
drive. The problem now is that I cannot boot from the new
hard drive and must still rely on the old hard drive.
 
Ron Rector said:
Lets get this straight.. You have 98 on the old drive and
XP on the new drive? You are correct.....the boot files
will remain on the bootable drive (C: win98.
The problem is even if you got the new drive to boot as
the C: drive the registry is still pointing to the old
drive letter assignment.

Best bet is to format and start over. Pull out the old
drive completely and make the new drive the primary
master. Then install XP fresh. You can achieve this by
booting from the cd and following the installation
prompts.
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If he reformats the old drive (which contains the Win98),
he'd better have the Win98 installation CD handy to show
the WinXP installation routine that this is an upgrade to a
bona fide Windows OS.

*TimDaniels*
 
You can use the XP Recovery Console.

Boot the CD and select repair console.

When in the console, FIXMBR on the system partition.

KT said:
I have recently upgraded to XP Pro (from Win98)
I intended to install the new operating system on a new hard drive,
Click to expand...
leaving the old system intact (just in case)
The problem is the old drive now contains both boot sectors, with the XP
Click to expand...
operating system on the new hard drive. The problem now is that I cannot
boot from the new hard drive and must still rely on the old hard drive.
 
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