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Windows XP Multiboot problems

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by brycecohan, 2009/03/14.

  1. 2009/03/14
    brycecohan

    brycecohan Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    This might not be a big problem but I can't figure out how to tackle it on my own.

    I have a PC with 2 HDD's, a 250 GB Sata, and 160GB IDE. My setup historically was: 60 gig partition on the Sata for booting. I had one version of windows installed.

    Recently I added to more partitions to the 160GB IDE bringing it to a total of four. The 2 new partitions were 5 and 15 GB respectively. I installed 2 more versions of windows XP on those, Micro XP on the 5GB and a nlite trimmed version of XP on the 15GB. At that point I had 2 partitions on my SATA, a 60GB and a ~190 GB, and 4 partitions on my IDE. When I booted up I had three OS's to choose from.

    The problem is that I wanted to replace the 60GB XP partition with the 15GB installation as my primary. I reformatted the 60GB partition without thinking thoroughly and thus deleted the only boot file on my system, because that 60GB partition was my original windows install.

    I got my computer back up and running by installing fresh onto the 60GB but I want to move the 15GB installation over to it, instead of starting fresh. Is there anyway to do this?

    The other installations are no longer being detected.

    Sorry for the ridiculously long post...
     
  2. 2009/03/14
    surferdude2

    surferdude2 Inactive

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    Yes, you can use XXCLONE to do that.
     

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