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Okay - so here is what the boot.ini file reads on the C: drive (this is the IDE drive that is required to boot to my G:\windows system) [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows...

Okay Linney, many thanks. I got the confidence and trust I needed reading it on the microsoft site... well both the fixmbr and fixboot commands worked successfully, but upon reboot - with only the Sata drive installed, i got a book disk error... system disk not found... so... the procedure...

Wolluf, The fixmbr will not screw up my hard drive and all the data on it? It's a risk I do not want to take unless it is 100%.

Okay - update. I copied boot.ini and ntldr and ntdetect.com over to G: (it was not an over-write, the files were not yet on the G: drive) - i did a shutdown, unplugged my C: and D: IDE drives, and loaded recovery console. When i entered FIXMBR- i got the following message - "This computer...

aha! you were right!! dangit!! thank you! I had the option to hide the protected system files. okay. found them. i shall and will write those to the G: drive. i have a feeling this is going to do the trick. I hope!! thanks again. Moshe

very good and interesting question. I checked it out and was surprised to see that the G: drive is consider the (boot)and the C: drive is consider the system drive, which to me, is backwards... anyway, there are no files on the C: drive in the root besides boot.ini and rmdldump.txt that's it...

Linney, thanks... and yes, to answer your question, my search included hidden files and folders, but they do not appear in the search in the boot sector of the C: IDE drive. I had to do some command to unhide them, from run >>> don't remember what it was. Still cannot locate them. M

Okay thanks so much both of you. I will go ahead and do these steps, but first, i want to be sure of something. I ran some commands to unhide boot.ini and was able to copy that to G: sata drive. I did a search on my C: IDE drive for both ntldr and dtdetect.com and all I got was them both in...

Hey folks, I have a strange problem. I noticed that my regular C: IDE drive was acting funny, a bit slow, so I went and got a new Sata drive - the other two I have are IDE. I did a clean installation of Windows XP Pro SP3 on the new Sata drive. it works like a charm. smooth as silk. Now here...