Make a HD unbootable

[Guest]

I just bought a new SATA HD and moved my old boot drive to SATA2. Short of
reformatting, is there any way to make that HD unbootable? My new set keeps
booting to the old drive. Could I make them a JBOD RAID array with my old HD
as the second SATA? Thanks for any help. Chris N

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I just bought a new SATA HD and moved my old boot drive to SATA2. Short of
reformatting, is there any way to make that HD unbootable? My new set keeps
booting to the old drive. Could I make them a JBOD RAID array with my old HD
as the second SATA? Thanks for any help. Chris N

You can delete the WinXP boot files (ntldr and ntdetect.com)
from the old drive but I suspect that this won't help you at all.
You don't need to make the old drive bootable. What you
really need is to tell your BIOS to use the SATA as disk the
primary boot device.

 

[Brian A]

If you remove the old drive from the equation does the new one boot? If so, you
need to remove the Active bit from the old drive which can be done with Bootit NG.

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[Rick Rogers]

Hi Chris,

Assuming you've partitioned and formatted it, boot the WinXP CD, load the
Recovery Console, login to the installation with the administrator password.
From the prompt, run fixboot <drive>: where <drive> is the letter
designation of the new drive.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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[Guest]

I had this issue when I moved to SATA. The solution is to install the OS on
the new SATA II drive while the old drive is disconnected from the computer.

I don't see that there would be much of a need for a JBOD array on a single
system - it seems easier just to name the drives and use them as you need
them.

- John