ripken204 Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 i have 2 intallations of windows and i want to get rid of the once on the c: drive which contatains the boot.ini file. i only want to use my d: drive which has windows on it. how will i be able to boot off of my d: drive instead of the c: ?Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on.--Zxian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N1K Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 If I remember correctly, you should make the D: partition active through PDISK and put the boot.ini file on that disk.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prp8683 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 If I remember correctly, you should make the D: partition active through PDISK and put the boot.ini file on that disk.. You also need ntldr and ntdetect.com, as well as ntbootdd.sys if you have a SCSI (or anything that looks like SCSI to Windows, including most ATA/SATA RAID controllers) boot disk.You may also need to alter boot.ini to reflect any changes to the partition/disk order on the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Is it a logical drive or physical drive?If you just want to relocate the boot.ini and the rest of the bootfiles to a different partition on the boot drive, just set the other partition as active and place the bootfiles there.If it's a physical drive, change the BIOS settings to boot from it, and place the bootfiles there. Note that D will now be C and C will now be D (on some BIOSes; others leave the drive orders unchanged at the risk of incompatibilities with other OSs that don't like to boot from a drive other than the first - Windows XP not being one of them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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