lilliccu Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 I have a 60 GB HD with three primary partitions with Win98SE, WinXP Pro SP2, Win 2000 Pro and a extended partion, all in FAT32. I launch the three OS with BootMagic. Two weeks ago I copied the four partitions in a new 200 GB HD with Partion Magic 8.00, increasing their size. After this, I set the new HD as Master Disk, and the old HD as Slave, for testing the new partitons before formatting the old HD. After this period, yesterday I tried to disconnect the old disk, and while Win98SE runs well, launching Win XP I saw, with an heart attack, a black screen with a long message about a "missing OS". I have an another problem with win2000, but it is not important because I can format it. Lookig at WinXP Boot.ini, I saw these lines:[boot loader]timeout =10default =multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetectI thought that rdisk(1) aimed to the slave disk, so I changed the word rdisk(1) to rdisk(0). After this change WinXP starts, I can see the log in screen with the list of Users, I try to write the administrator password, I see the message "connecting...." but after few seconds I see the message "disconneting" and the OS shows again the same log in screen with the list of users, without any other error message, and I cannot enter in the OS.With a Dos boot floppy disk I have changed again rdisk(0) to rdisk(1) and I have reconnected the old HD, but I don't know what to do now for using only the new disk, formatting the old one.Can anyone help me ? Excuse me for my poor English.
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