Disk Boot Failure New Windows XP Installation

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Bryan R. Meyer

I just purchased a new hard drive to complement an older, smaller
drive I have. I made the new drive a slave and installed Windows XP
on it from the CD. Now, both the old and new hard drives have
installations of Windows XP. When I boot up my system, I am asked to
choose which installation to use. Both installations are functional.

However, I wish to make the slave drive the master. When I unplugged
the old drive and made the new one the master, I got a "Disk Boot
Failure". I attempted to use the FixBoot and FixMBR commands in the
Recovery Console, but I am still getting the same error.

Why can't I boot XP from this disk when it is switched from a slave to
the master?

Thanks,
Bryan
 
Hi,

Because the boot files were installed to the old, smaller drive.Run fixboot
followed by bootcfg /rebuild to see if you can repair it, otherwise you will
need to do a repair installation while the drive is in it's new location as
master.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
I may be living in the past, but is the drive jumper now set to Master?

Mark Z.
 
Bryan said:
I just purchased a new hard drive to complement an older, smaller
drive I have. I made the new drive a slave and installed Windows XP
on it from the CD. Now, both the old and new hard drives have
installations of Windows XP. When I boot up my system, I am asked to
choose which installation to use. Both installations are functional.

However, I wish to make the slave drive the master. When I unplugged
the old drive and made the new one the master, I got a "Disk Boot
Failure". I attempted to use the FixBoot and FixMBR commands in the
Recovery Console, but I am still getting the same error.

Why can't I boot XP from this disk when it is switched from a slave to
the master?

Thanks,
Bryan
Click to expand...
When you formated the "slave drive" was it formated as a boot drive? If
not it will not boot. Also make sure the jumper is changed to master
instead of slave.
 
Bryan said:
I just purchased a new hard drive to complement an older, smaller
drive I have. I made the new drive a slave and installed Windows XP
on it from the CD. Now, both the old and new hard drives have
installations of Windows XP. When I boot up my system, I am asked to
choose which installation to use. Both installations are functional.

However, I wish to make the slave drive the master. When I unplugged
the old drive and made the new one the master, I got a "Disk Boot
Failure". I attempted to use the FixBoot and FixMBR commands in the
Recovery Console, but I am still getting the same error.

Why can't I boot XP from this disk when it is switched from a slave to
the master?
Click to expand...

The boot files are on the old C:

boot.ini <--- which needs editing now.
NTDETECT.COM
ntldr
 
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