Windows boot promting

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:56 pm

Ok I have 2 HDD installed on this pc that i'm making for my dad.

Problem is they both has OS's on them. Whenever I boot the pc it makes me choose Xp pro or XP home from his old HDD. If I remove the one with XP home on it however the pc wont start at all.

I just wanna know how I can just boot xp pro and remove the old hdd with XP home on it completely from the machine.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:03 pm

If your BIOS has some sort of boot priority system, use it to your full advantage.

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:13 pm

How do I tell it to boot from a sata over a ide is seems to wanna go ide first and formost.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:15 pm

If the SATA is built into the mobo, it should show up on the boot priority list... either that or the hard drives themselves are listed in a boot oorder.

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:18 pm

Ok I just changed the sata to the first bootable drive. The pc just shits all over itself if it tries to boot off the sata first without going to the OS selection menu.

There has to be a way to remove the choice of booting from XP home in the first place.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:18 am

I think you need to mess around with msconfig in the boot.ini tab.

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:32 am

I dont even see a boot.ini tab.

Got gernal
system.ini
win.ini
services
startup

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:38 am

Ok on the pc that has the 2 os's it does have a boot.ini option.

Does one simply remove the option for the Windows Xp Home line?

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:39 am

Yeah, I think you do that and just have only the XP Pro line. And make sure the partition value is correct.

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:43 pm

Not so great on a "I dont really know" because I remove the line and theres no way windows to boot then theres no way to fix this issue either effectivly fucking my pc.

powerspike · Post by **powerspike** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:29 pm

Edit: Nevermind, I have no idea how to fix it. I've never used a sata device as a bootable drive.

Einherjan · Post by **Einherjan** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:16 pm

I think you just need to change the boot order. To do that I think it's one of your F1-12 keys when the mobo screen comes up when you first turn your pc on. Or (I really don't know) make the other HDD a slave drive so you stop having that issue and then reformat the slave.

Otherwise I have no idea.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:50 pm

Windows will always install its boot loader on the first partition it can read of the first drive, so if xp home HD was the boot drive when you installed xp pro, your xp pro HD does not have the boot loader on it.

there are two ways of dealing with this:mucking around with the boot.ini, or using your XP CD to fix it properly:

Disconnect the drive with xp home, set the proper boot order, boot off your xp pro CD, and do either a repair install, or use the recovery console and run fixmbr and fixboot.

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:40 am

funkyass wrote:Windows will always install its boot loader on the first partition it can read of the first drive, so if xp home HD was the boot drive when you installed xp pro, your xp pro HD does not have the boot loader on it.

there are two ways of dealing with this:mucking around with the boot.ini, or using your XP CD to fix it properly:

Disconnect the drive with xp home, set the proper boot order, boot off your xp pro CD, and do either a repair install, or use the recovery console and run fixmbr and fixboot.

You sir are the man.