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boot files were on C: by default and in my case boot.ini is a little different. it works, however system does not boot from any of drives, i put boot files on all of them and still nothing. i guess i should make ubuntu live on usb stick, reset flags on drives, make my main drive C: agan and reinstall.. EDIT: @wimb: that makes things quite clear, well i was thinking about something like that just using linux tools. thx, ill try this out ;] EDIT2: Well i couldnt get it working heh. Finally i got back my dvd-rom, booted up ubuntu, used gparted to delete F:, created new partition, had set it as boot, had unset all flags of other partitions, reinstalled xp from cd and now it works as it should. Sort of victory, not rly heh

that screen was made with EASEUS partition manager. i thought i could get something out of it, but it turned out to be not powerful enough, or i dont know what i am supposed to do.. besides of xp - no, only this OS is installed. DISK1 - IDE, DISK2 - SATA. Reason i used F was that i did not want to loose all my data that was saved on D: and E:, however when i fired up windows setup - my D: became C: and E: became D:. When installing USB drive took E: so i got left with F:. Didnt rly care cause its not my PC, i should have tho.. Last time this happened i managed to arrange partitions using gparted from ubuntu live cd, however my dvd-rom is broken now, and i can not use laptop dvd-rom on workstation cause power supply plugs dont match. this is how i got to this stupid situation.

sorry, cant rly make photo of windows installation screen cause i accidentaly broke files on flash, 1st option wont load.. (experimenting with that cmd that works with boot.ini). anyway i will upload it later if needed.

as the topic says.. i installed xp x86 from usb flash drive to the F: (for some reason creating new partition and restarting setup over and over did not make my old C: drive (now F:) again C:). anyway, i installed OS, however could not boot. as FAQ said i executed those 2 files in system32 dir. however i noticed something weird. boot.ini, ntldr and other sys files were in C:, but OS itself was in F:. F: is marked as bootable partition. I figured that i maybe i should move boot.ini and other crap from C: to F:, however it did not help. for some reason OS thinks that boot.ini must be in C: (windows boot.ini gui thing uder [startup and recovery]). im completely lost in action and have no idea how to make OS boot from F:. anyone faced this weird problem before?