Booting From Another Hard Drive

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allstar_07

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I've got two hard drives-one designated c:\ and one e:\.

How can i get the comp to boot up from e:\ rather than c:\, i think this is stopping me running the e:\ as master as the comp always tries to boot from c:\ so i have to have c:\ as master and e:\ slave and then to open 2000 from that.

I looked in setup but e:\ is not an option for boot order. Although it is found in storage drives-although only the size-not no of cylinders etc.

Can i add e:\ somehow to the boot order?

Cheers ;) im slowly losing faith...

I was goin to change the names of the drives but disk manager doesn't let me as e:\ is set as the boot drive-although im sure it doesnt boot from there!
 
change your E: to the master drive(from the jumpers) if you want to boot off that without the other hooked up. try that first. Either way it should then see the drive as the main one, and if you plug up the other as slave it will prolly see it as e: then...that's what i would do first. :P

are the SATA or IDE? those SATA ones can be an extreme pain.
 
There both IDE, it wont let me boot from the new drive on its own thou because it just comes up with 'missing ntldr' error (as in previous thread). I've been readin about and that can occur when you try and update windows 95/98 etc with 2000. It just seems odd i can boot from the old and then run windows 2000 from my new hd. But it wont let me do anything when the new drive(windows 2000) is set as master.

I dont know if i fix this ntldr missing thing wheather it will work anyway cause of this booting from c:\ anyway. I used fixboot in 2000's recovery module but no success.

Any ideas???!?!?!
 
well you still might be in a FAT32 file system. windows 2k runs off of NTFS. that -could- be a problem....i think i'm a little confused with what you are doing with two OSes. give a little more detail...being vague is bad. :P
 
I wasn't really trying to do anything except have 2000 running off my new hard drive, but it was only working through the old hard drive...anyway

I've bitten the bullet and started again, just connected up my new one and installed a new 2000(deleted and formated the hard drive through the set up as the first installation was cocking up)

All is well, connected old drive-doesn't see windows 98 but i dont care-just want the files off it, so once ive done that can format the old hd.

New Problem!

Now when i boot i have two windows 2000 options, i know theres not two installations on there as im only using 1.07gb up(and it was supposed to have been formatted). If i try to boot the old version it doesnt work-is there away to remove this coming up on boot up and if theres any left over files?

Cheers
 
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