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Title: slave drive
Post by: dsprung on November 26, 2009, 09:09:05 PM

is there anyway to boot off of the slave drive


because my master drive has a serous virus on it and i want to just wipe it and have the slave be the master but when i make the slave the master i get a disk read error press control alt del and it wont work so could anyone help me out

Title: Re: slave drive
Post by: dahlarbear on November 27, 2009, 03:51:27 PM

1.  Slave Drive.
     a.  How does slave drive interface to motherboard (IDE or SATA)?
     b.  If IDE, see:  Connecting IDE Hard Drives (http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html).
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     c.  Is there an operating system already installed on the "slave" hard drive?
     d.  If yes, which one; e.g. Windows XP Professional SP3?
     e.  If yes, was it built for (installed to) the current computer system?
     f.  If yes, is its system partition on the slave drive (the partition containing system files needed to boot the operating system; e.g. NTLDR, NTDetect.com, Boot.ini?

2.  Resources.  What recovery and/or installation resources do you have:
     a.  Vendor supplied recovery/restore partition on bootable hard drive
     b.  Vendor supplied recovery/restore CDs (or user made)
     c.  OEM Windows XP Install CD
     d.  Retail Windows XP Install CD (full or upgrade)

3.  Alternate Boot Device(s).
     a.  Does system have an operational floppy disk drive?

Title: Re: slave drive
Post by: dsprung on November 28, 2009, 11:14:34 AM

1.  Slave Drive.
     a.  How does slave drive interface to motherboard (IDE or SATA)? IDE
     b.  If IDE, see:  Connecting IDE Hard Drives.
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     c.  Is there an operating system already installed on the "slave" hard drive? YES
     d.  If yes, which one; e.g. Windows XP Professional SP3? XP pro sp not sure
     e.  If yes, was it built for (installed to) the current computer system? NO
     f.  If yes, is its system partition on the slave drive (the partition containing system files needed to boot the operating system; e.g. NTLDR, NTDetect.com, Boot.ini?

2.  Resources.  What recovery and/or installation resources do you have:
     a.  Vendor supplied recovery/restore partition on bootable hard drive NO
     b.  Vendor supplied recovery/restore CDs (or user made)NO
     c.  OEM Windows XP Install CDNO
     d.  Retail Windows XP Install CD (full or upgrade)NO

3.  Alternate Boot Device(s).
     a.  Does system have an operational floppy disk drive?yes

Title: Re: slave drive
Post by: patio on November 28, 2009, 11:27:20 AM

The drive needs to be jumpered as master.
But because this install of XP was from another machine i doubt you will get it to boot properly...