Removing one of my two XP operating systems

[gwehrheim]

Here is the problem:
My C drive was my pre SP1/SP2 winxp system drives. I decided to re-install
windows on my drive D, with SP1/SP2 installed before I went live with it.
Now, after thoroughly testing the SP2 on my d drive, I want to get rid of
the C drive version. Drive C and D are physically separate hard drive
devices. I changed the boot.ini on the D drive, disconnected the old C
drive, and made the new D drive primary. When I go to fire up the system, I
get the message "ERROR LOADING OS" What am I forgetting here.......has to
be something obvious

 

[Jerry]

You can't do what you did and survive. Windows was installed on D:\ and
expects to forever stay on D:\ Swapping the drives as you did made the
Windows drive C: and, as you mentioned, screwed things up. Put everything
back as it was, leave Windows on D: and delete all the old stuff you don't
want from C:. But do not change the drive sequence.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Error Message: Windows Could Not Start Because of a Computer
Disk Hardware Configuration Problem
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314477

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| Here is the problem:
| My C drive was my pre SP1/SP2 winxp system drives. I decided to re-install
| windows on my drive D, with SP1/SP2 installed before I went live with it.
| Now, after thoroughly testing the SP2 on my d drive, I want to get rid of
| the C drive version. Drive C and D are physically separate hard drive
| devices. I changed the boot.ini on the D drive, disconnected the old C
| drive, and made the new D drive primary. When I go to fire up the system, I
| get the message "ERROR LOADING OS" What am I forgetting here.......has to
| be something obvious

 

[gwehrheim]

This is not a Viable solution............it leaves windows sitting out there
on a slave IDEE string....if the only solution is to re-install, then that's
whaqt I'll have to do. The only applications I need to re-install are some
drivers and MSoffice. I just don't want to go through the long windows
install and upgrade........

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Here is the problem:
My C drive was my pre SP1/SP2 winxp system drives.
I decided to re-install windows on my drive D, with
SP1/SP2 installed before I went live with it.

Was the WinXP on the C: drive running and visible
during the WinXP installation on the D: drive?

How were the 2 drives jumpered? Were they on
the same IDE channel?

Now, after thoroughly testing the SP2 on my d drive,
I want to get rid of the C drive version. Drive C and D are
physically separate hard drive devices. I changed the
boot.ini on the D drive,

Using Notepad, copy the D: drive's boot.ini and post
it here.

disconnected the old C drive, and made the new D drive
primary.

Do you mean you put the previously named D: drive in
the place previously occupied by the C: drive?

Do you mean the IDE channel for the 2 drives is the
Primary channel?

Did you change the jumpers on the previously named
D: drive to the setting that was on the C: drive?

Did you adjust the BIOS' boot sequence at all?


*TimDaniels*