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Dual Boot & Disk Boot Error

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-25 17:26

Alright lets see how accurately I can explain this.. I'm not very pro at this

I have an SATA drive and an IDE drive.  When I first built this computer I had Windows XP Pro being booted off the SATA drive and the IDE drive was pure storage.  Somewhere along the way my SATA drive crashed (couldn't boot from it anymore; BSODs before Windows Startup screen and Safe mode/recovery didn't work) so I installed Windows XP on my IDE drive to save my files and reformat the SATA drive. 

Now I've installed XP Pro x64 on the SATA drive, but I can't boot through that hard disk anymore.  The only way I can access x64 is by booting through the IDE drive and selecting x64 on the Dual Boot screen.  Attempting to boot up through the SATA disk only gives me a black screen saying "Disk Boot Error, insert system disk and press enter" and doing so doesn't work.

Also now in Device manager when on x64 I have it telling me the SATA is a boot disk and the IDE is a system disk.  I have no clue whats going on :3

Any ideas?

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-25 17:27

Also I've tried going into the recovery consoling and using both fixmbr and fixboot; neither helped.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-25 17:45

When people say "Dual-Boot" they mean 2 separate OS's on 1 partitioned physical disk; not 2 separate bootable physical disks in 1 machine.
Maybe you only think x64 is installed on the SATA, when in fact it has no OS and is not showing up at all as it may be unpartitioned.
No OS on SATA, BIOS looks to IDE, which has two OS's installed.
Double check your BIOS boot order. Disable as necessary.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-25 17:54

>>3
thanks for this heads up.  I know I selected the SATA drive when I was installing x64 and D:\Windows definately shows an OS?

boot.ini displays this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect


which I think shows that it is installed on the SATA disk..

My BIOS boot order only has 1: HDD and 2: CD drive, I can't differentiate between the SATA and IDE disks there.  Under hard drive boot order I have the SATA listed first and the IDE listed second, switching them around gets me to the Dual Boot screen and leaving it how it is gives me the Disk Boot Error.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-25 17:56

Eventually I want to have only 1 OS on this system (x64) which is why I want to fix this so I can format the IDE drive for storage use and leave the SATA for the OS.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-25 19:39 (sage)

Fixed by disconnecting IDE drive and reinstalling x64 - can ignore this thread

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