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Northville Dave · 12-19-2007, 03:17 PM

W2k is on primary partition of SATA drive. XP is on a secondary partition of the same drive. If XP were on the pri. partition I would just format the secondary partition, modify boot.ini and be done with it.

I installed the PATA drive only after I cloned XP on to it (jumper is OK) - if I had been able to boot XP from this drive I would have formatted the entire SATA then cloned XP back on to it, but for whatever reason, the PATA will not boot (hangs at blue "Welcome" screen) unless the SATA drive is also enabled.

Thanks again for the help.

12-19-2007, 03:17 PM	#7 (permalink)
Northville Dave Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5 OS: xpsp3, vista, ubuntu	Re: Removing W2K from dual boot system-help! W2k is on primary partition of SATA drive. XP is on a secondary partition of the same drive. If XP were on the pri. partition I would just format the secondary partition, modify boot.ini and be done with it. I installed the PATA drive only after I cloned XP on to it (jumper is OK) - if I had been able to boot XP from this drive I would have formatted the entire SATA then cloned XP back on to it, but for whatever reason, the PATA will not boot (hangs at blue "Welcome" screen) unless the SATA drive is also enabled. Thanks again for the help.