MadMark
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Removing the bootable drive
I have a computer with Win2K on the Secondary Master and Win98 on the Primary Master. I'd like to permanently remove the 98 drive and move the 2000 over to the Primary cable.
How should I handle this? If I just do the physical switch, then the 2000 has nothing to boot off of. Can I just repair or reinstall Win2K without losing the data? Or do I need some sort of boot manager like Partition Magic? Truthfully, I'd rather not go with the boot management utility because I'm trying to simplify this system. On the other hand I don't want to have any possibility of data loss.
How should I handle this? If I just do the physical switch, then the 2000 has nothing to boot off of. Can I just repair or reinstall Win2K without losing the data? Or do I need some sort of boot manager like Partition Magic? Truthfully, I'd rather not go with the boot management utility because I'm trying to simplify this system. On the other hand I don't want to have any possibility of data loss.
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it sounds it is easy. not sure what have done. i do hope you did nothing, since it would be much easy if you start from the beginning place you state in the 1st post.
copy these files to the root drive that win2000 is on from the Win98 drive
boot.ini
NTLDR
NTDETECT.COM
then do this
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
change the value from "C:\Winnt\System32\userini
HOW TO: Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q223188
then do this
if missing files is the only issue, then try this:
Boot from the 2000 CD, get into the Recovery Console, and type the following commands:
FIXMBR C:
FIXBOOT C:Reboot
x denotes the letter of your CD Drive