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Won't boot to 2nd HDD
I have two disks, both have XP Pro. Both installations work fine, but only one of the disks will boot. I have to boot to one disk in order to choose the other disk (from the boot menu).
Information:
Disk1
80GB EIDE
XP Pro NTFS
Healthy (System)
Disk2
200GB SATA
XP Pro NTFS
Healthy (Boot)
What I did:
I'm trying to migrate to Disk2 so I can do away with Disk1. From Disk1, I wiped Disk2 clean with a reformat and then created 2 partitions on it. I put a lot of files into the 1st partition of Disk2, then sometime later I installed XP onto the 2nd partition. There were no issues at all with this installation.
What is happening:
I can't boot from Disk2, but when I boot from Disk1 I am able to select the XP installation on Disk2. This way I can get into Disk1's XP as well as Disk2's XP. Since I want to do away with Disk1, this is a problem. Do I have to start all over (reformat Disk2 and create a new partition) and install XP into this new 1st partition of Disk2?
I hope this was clear. Thanks in advance,
Scott
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