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To: TH who wrote (14430)1/7/2004 8:30:49 AM
From: Bruce A. Thompson  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
Thurston,

After waiting a week to decide what you may have learned, may I offer the following:

The key to your boot problem was in this statement:

I set the BIOS to boot to the drive with the new install, but no luck

In effect, what you had done originally was install XP on the non booting drive and set it as the default OS. By doing so, XP was forced to put some of the boot info on the "Booting" drive in order to start the OS. Dam accomodating of XP to do that for you. If I may say so.

When you formatted the booting drive, that boot data was lost.

Lesson Learned: Always install your primary OS on the drive that boots.

BT
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