Right, I have 2 hard disks in my system. One is a SATA 120gb Maxtor DM9, other is a 20gb IBM IDE. I want to remove the 20gig from the system, however when I take it out windows fails to boot. I checked in disk management, and this is what I see: The top 2 and N: are the 20gig drive. You will see that one partition is marked as System. I believe this is why windows won't boot. Is there any way to change one of the partitions on my other disk to System or something... Note that there isn't anything at all on the 20gig drive...
System is already on your 120GB drive, so that isn't the problem. It might be the jumpers on the hard drives? You may need to change it from Master to a single drive.
But the O: Drive is marked as system, and this is on the 20gig. Have tried removing it from boot up list completely, still won't boot up without it present.
As I understand things you can't boot XP without the "system" disk. Have a look at this discussion - seems to have a similar problem, and some solutions are suggested.
Hmm, well that O: drive is only 996MB. Maybe it's the pagefile for Windows? Make sure the Virtual Memory (in system properties) is set to the other drive.
Logan, thanks for the link, all the solutions seem pretty complicated/risky... Could someone simplify that for me, IE step by step what to do? Tek, the drive is completely empty, page file is on the other drive, in the partition called page file.
