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I installed XP on a separate hard drive, it worked so well with this system that I upgraded the Win2k drive, the boot drive, to XP. It didn't work nearly as well as the clean install, so I formatted it to do a clean install.
That's when all hell broke loose. The other hard drive wouldn't boot, "NTLDR missing". I wrote zeroes to it, took out the other drive, but the computer
took about 2 minutes to get past auto-detecting drives, and then it wouldn't even load the floppy HD utilities, the screen went bank for several minutes. I cleared CMOS, didn't help.
I put the other hard drive back on, it starts fine. But I can't install an OS on the drive that I wrote zeroes on, when I boot up, the original 2k drive still shows an XP boot option, and I can't get past it to install. My computer won't work without the other hard drive, so I can't install an OS. ***?
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Last edited by johnnyasia; 11-06-2004 at 10:04 PM.
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