boot from c: not D: help

Hi Guys,

I have been having probs fro a few days now with my ntldr missing i have two 80GB drives so i installed windows on drive D: so i could work.
I did a lot of work in dos cmd copying and deleteing file and find a restore point.

but now i have window on drive 1 C: master and drive 2 D: slave everytie i restart it boots from and into d: which is my slave how can i get it to boot from c: to see if i have copyed the ntldr files correctly and my restore point is there, please

regards
Terry

windows xp home C: sp2 D: sp1

 

Press F1, F2, or DEL (not sure which yours is) to go into the BIOS.

Locate "Boot Sequence" and change it there.

 

have you tried boot settings in bios?

 

ok i hit del on setup in the end, i am in BIOS under first boot device i have made drom in case i have to but the other choies are LS120, HDD-0, SCSI, HDD1, HDD2, HDD3 how do i know which drive is which for th corret order?

 

Master = HDD-0

Slave = HDD1

 

thanks for that,

I have changed bios to cdrom, hdd0, hdd1 and i have checked my jumpers on both drives mster and slave the right way round, but it still boot up into d the slave nd all my files and progs i need to use and run are on c:

so idesided to install windows again in D: and after it formatted the disc i would eject the disc, i then thought it would the just boot from C: master but it just say restarting setup put the disc bak in.

any ore idears pease

 

just guessing but maybe your boot sector is corrupt on drive c so it gets passed for an attempt to boot of d. you could try restarting and hit F8 and select bootable from there

 

yeah i will try that now, i think windows changed the onfig when i installed it again on d: when i ask for a repair it lists which Windows C: or D: but not for the boot,


Thank you for your help
Terry