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[dragonoflife]

For you computer-minded folk, I have a question:

I have two hard drives on my computer, my old salvaged one as IDE and my new SATA one. Both of them have a bootable OS, but I use the SATA one as my main OS. The BIOS preferentially assigns an IDE hard drive to C and the SATA one to D. Somehow my computer lost connection with the IDE drive, and apparently the BIOS stores boot information on it. I wasn't able to boot to any OS even with the the SATA drive detected and working.

How the heck do I fix THAT? And by fix, I mean transfer all bootable information to the (newer, faster, serial) SATA drive?

Comments

[elf-fu.livejournal.com]

Shawn says, "If drive formated in NTFS, then you don't. You'll have to reinstall."

[elf-fu.livejournal.com]

P.S. I have no idea what any of that means. I just type shit. :D

[pyrtolin.livejournal.com]

Boot from the XP CD- enter the Recovery Console
Run these commands, in order:
FIXMBR
FIXBOOT
BOOTCFG

You may only need the first two, but doing the whole set will make sure that everything is set right.