two harddisk boot

[Andrew]

I hope this is the right newsgroup for this...
There are two harddisks in my computer, one IDE (C drive)
which contains winme and then there is a SCSI (D drive)
with win2k. I want to take out the C drive but I noticed
that some of the win2k system files are in the root drive
on C. I would like to make my D drive the primary drive
but I am not sure how to achieve that. Can I just copy
those system files (ntdetect, ntldr, any other ones?) to
the D root directory?
I suppose that I also need to change the mbr on D.
thanks in advance,
andrew

 

[Andrew]

After reading some of the relevant messages here, I tried to repair the d
drive with win2k setup. Still upon boot the bios reports:
boot from scsi: ok
boot failure on previous device
press F1 to continue

It almost seems that the mbr might be messed up, but why would win2k setup
not repair that when I did the manual repair? Do I have to use the emergency
console and fix the mbr? I just don't want to lose anything on that drive
since I can still boot fine with the C drive connected. Problems only appear
when I disconnect the C (ide) drive.

any ideas?

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Andrew

It might be the MBR. Another cause of boot problems might be that the
partition isn't primary, but a logical drive in an extended partition, or
that the partition isn't set active (bootable).

If the partition isn't primary, some third party applications like
Partition Magic might be able to convert it. If it is a primary partition,
set it as active either using Disk Management while Win2000 is booted from
your IDE disk, or from FDISK when booting from a Win9x startup disk.

Best regards

Bjorn