Topic Boot Disc Failure

bsballz

I had a hardrive with badsectors on it so i replaced it....on the other harddrive i split it into three partitions...on partition 1 i installed xp pro and partition 2 installed vista...while still having the original hdd hooked...after i was set i got rid of my old harddrive but first used the xp boot dics to delete the original xp pro off my bad harddrive...now when i try to boot just my new harddrive i get a screen that says
Windows would not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.

I would greatly not have to reformat my new harddrive with the multiboot os on it...if any one at all could help me into restoring my disk hardware settings to boot this hdd up i would greatly appreciate that...sincerly a friend of datalk -bsballz

mmarsh

Have you checked the parameters in the MBR? Since you removed a HD and deleted a partition I would check your settings.

REMEMBER TO MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE TOUCHING ANY SETTING.

bsballz

how do i check this master boot record so i can fix this problem

mmarsh

Should be in your system root C:\ called boot.ini (open with notepad).


Note, this is not the MBR itself, but it will let you edit the partition table. The partition table explaines to the computer how many hard drives there are installed and how they are divided up.


Again I must urge extreme caution, you can seriously damage your system if you make an error here. If you have never edited the partition table do a google search or get a book as to how.