neotheducky

Well, I just built a computer for my father and his business. He had an old 400MHZ P2 on a 10 Gig HD. It was running Windows 98 SE. I built him a computer from my older parts. Now he is running a Athlon 1600+ on Win XP on a 40 Gig HD we got today. Now comes the problem. In order to install XP, I had to have Windows 98SE still on the 10 gig drive that was master on the IDE bus. The 40 gig was what I put XP on. I want to be able to remove the 10 gig drive because I think it is going to fail. When I do remove it, XP wont boot. I think its because the MBR (Master Boot Record) was on the 10 Gig drive. SO my question really comes down to : How do I put the MBR on the 40 Gig drive so I can remove the 10 Gig drive with 98 completely?

Thanks everyone.

Sportbilly

When you go into fdisk, which drive shows up as the active partition?

Which drive is the master, and which the slave? Does it make a difference if you leave them both in the comp, but switch their master/slave config?

EDIT: Of course I'm probably barking up the wrong tree, I usually do. That's how I learn which ones taste better