How to make HD bootable?

[Guest]

Ok here goes.
My old motherboard died - dead - so I cannot go back to that configuration.

What I ended up doing is putting in a spare hd and making it master - then
did a fresh install of win 2k. I can now access the old hd as slave -
however I cannot figure out how to repair this one and make it bootable.
When i go into the bios and force the system to boot to the old drive I get
the following error:

0x000000007b
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

I can boot off the "master" and look at this drive - I can move files read
files etc but I have so much stuff installed on this other drive that I just
hate to chuck it.

How can I repair this old - "slave" and make it bootable and run as the only
drive in this system. Please help.

Thanks
Terry in Atlanta

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Ok here goes.
My old motherboard died - dead - so I cannot go back to that configuration.

What I ended up doing is putting in a spare hd and making it master - then
did a fresh install of win 2k. I can now access the old hd as slave -
however I cannot figure out how to repair this one and make it bootable.
When i go into the bios and force the system to boot to the old drive I get
the following error:

0x000000007b
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

I can boot off the "master" and look at this drive - I can move files read
files etc but I have so much stuff installed on this other drive that I just
hate to chuck it.

How can I repair this old - "slave" and make it bootable and run as the only
drive in this system. Please help.

Thanks
Terry in Atlanta

You could try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824125

To protect yourself against this sort of thing, use a partition
imaging product and save an image of drive C: once every
few months.