On Saturday 09 December 2006 20:36, Doug McGarrett wrote: I'm having a problem with a setup using 2 hard drives. hda is XP, hdb is Suse 10.0. If both drives are connected, something is telling the bios that there are NO hard drives connected. If I disconnect hdb, I get a message that the primary hard drive has been detected. Then when the system tries to boot I get a grub failure error. I really don't need Linux on that machine. How can I get the machine to boot into XP without the grub boot error, with the second drive disconnected? I am also having trouble with the CD player on that machine, so it's problematical if I can boot off a CD. (I don't have any kind of backup disk for XP, as far as I remember.) I could have done this with an old Windows, with fdisk mbr, off of a floppy, but I don't know what XP wants.
--doug ==================================================== Perhaps the drive detection issue is caused by the setting of the master/slave jumpers on the drives? AFAIK, FDISK /MBR works for all versions of Windows. You can also boot the recovery console (if you have the XP media) and run FIXMBR. [though it sounds like this may not be possible for you.] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
