boot problem

[Ralph_B]

I have formatted my "c" drive and can no longer boot from "d" drive.

I had an exisiting installation of xp home edition on my c drive , i later added an xp pro installation on my d drive

both c and d are on seperate hdd's

could someone please explain how can i boot from my d drive ?

[Kathirvel]

Hi,

I think the MBR has been lost when you formated the c:. In case if you had installed the second OS separately (i.e. using the hard disk for d: only) you can boot the system by making it as the master. That can be possible.
Cheer..
Kathir~

[Ralph_B]

Hi + Thanx for the reply

reading various articles I'm kinda figuring this is what has happened , is it possible to recreate the MBR ?

I've tried various ways of booting from the 2nd drive independantly (master i/o slave , disabling master in bios , physically removing 1st drive , etc) and none of the methods has worked

I can access the files on the 2nd drive ok , I can get the c prompt - is it possible that I can run windows from it , it used to nbe possible to type in "win" to load the windows os , is there a similar method ?

[Gene K]

Originally Posted by Ralph_B

Hi + Thanx for the reply

reading various articles I'm kinda figuring this is what has happened , is it possible to recreate the MBR ?

I've tried various ways of booting from the 2nd drive independantly (master i/o slave , disabling master in bios , physically removing 1st drive , etc) and none of the methods has worked

I can access the files on the 2nd drive ok , I can get the c prompt - is it possible that I can run windows from it , it used to nbe possible to type in "win" to load the windows os , is there a similar method ?

Here are sites with multi-boot information:
a.http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/boot-proposal.html
b.http://www.nick.rozanski.com/multboot.htm
c.http://www.electro-tech-online.com/viewtopic.php?t=5296
d.http://www.goodells.net/multiboot
e.http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/multiboot1.html
f.http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/multib..._guideline.htm
g.http://www.mcmcse.com/win2k/guides/multiboot.shtml
Gene K

[Ralph_B]

maybe I've missed the point entirely or the problem is unsolvable ? , I appreciate the couple of replies I got earlier but I'm still in the same situation now as I was a week ago and not much the wiser , if it's not possible to retreive the windows xp installation I have sitting on my 2nd hard drive could someone please say so , thanks.

[Ant]

When you removed the first drive, did you change the jumper settings to Master on the second drive and plug it into the last connector on the ribbon cable?