hard disc 1 died, hard disk 2 won't boot, halp!

[Yoroshiku]

i had a dual boot system for a while, 2 hard disks, one boots up to korean xp and another boots up to english xp, i suspected the first hard disk was dying for a while so i got a 2nd hard disc, almost a year later, the first hard disc finally died. so i took it out and left the 2nd hard disk in and switch it to master.

but when i boot up, the comp do not see it as a bootable hard disk.

is there anyway to repair the boot, cause i don't really want to reformat and reinstall xp ..

thanks.

[davidsama]

It is spelled help

[GKar]

First read this:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/recover...n_console.mspx

Then try this:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_bootcfg.mspx

Here is a summary of the recovery commands:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/recover....mspx?mfr=true

If it works let me know, I never tried this. I Ghost systems to hard disk and DVD and a problem like this is easily fixed.

[Yoroshiku]

hmm thanks those look very helpful. gonna try when i get home from work and hope i can solve em thru the weekend without a internet connection ~_~

[Krispy Kritter]

The boot files (and many other important system files) are all stored on the C drive, regardless of which drive you choose for XP to be installed upon.

You will likely have to reinstall XP.

[cd090580]

Normally, just run:
fixmbr and then fixboot from the recovery console should solve your problem.

[Heywould3]

in the future, the way to prevent this is to go into bios and swithc the boot order of the HDs just loading the OS on a different drive will still keep the MBR and other files on the "boot" drive.

I have a tripple boot setup linux,vista and xp all on seprate drives i jsut go into bios to switch the order of the drive and it boots to the proper os.. safer that way if you ask me