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Answer» Here is the problem. I have a laptop Vaio which has no cd-rom or floppy disk. I have remove the Hd from it (the operating systeme was so coprrupt) and place it into special jacket that communicate with the desktop by using USB cable. I Have made two partition, the second one has XP OS on it. How can I make the first partition bootable so I can access the second part of the hard drive so I can setup up windows? ... I have remove the Hd from it (the operating systeme was so coprrupt) and place it into special jacket that communicate with the desktop by using usb cable. ... Mario: I'm assuming you have a hard drive enclosure kit with a USB 2.0 connector, something like this: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;jsessionid=YCSMEJULGTWZBKC4D3JFAFQ?skuId=6991605&type=product&productCategoryId=cat01069&id=1099392683637 However, i'm not sure what you have done. Are you saying you have a new hard drive inside the laptop and the OLD hard drive connected externally through the hard drive enclosure kit? or are you saying you now have no hard drive connected internally to the laptop? Did you install Windows XP while the hard drive was connected to this computer over a network or via an external CD-ROM drive? or did you install Windows XP while the hard drive was connected to a different computer and now you want to boot to the OS while the hard drive is connected to this laptop? Are you able to boot to XP at all with this laptop or do you get an error when you try to do so? Is there any OS INSTALLED on the first partition? (If there is, what OS is it? Is it the OS that was corrupted?) If you can connect the two computers together you should be able to install to the laptop from the desktop.Hi Pc Doc for Christ: Thnka you for your response. Ibhave took the hd of my vaio latop out encassed it then attached it thrue via usb 2.0 then I started my desktop pc, went to disk managenment in XP then format my hd laptop. As i was saying I do not have a cd-rom nor floppy not even a network connection. So I can not connect via the net. Now I havce split the hd of my laptop into two partition one has nothing on it but formated, the other has an exact replica of my Xp Corporate Edition. I hope that is clarfying my problem? or is it still clear as mud L.O.L. MarioHi mac, Tanks for the repply. Unfortunally I do not have any network connection built in nor do I have a cd-rom nor floppy, the extension bay for that laptop is about the same price I paid for this used PIII 500 Vaio Laptop tanks anywayDoc, Can a serial cable be used for this, port to port?actually I dont even have a serial the only thing I have for this thin notebook is a usb (that is reconized in windows) and pcmcia OH an output video rca format no serial,no parallell. I hoping a God of computer will come to my rescue! because I dont like to shell out 289.00 for an extensdion bay Mario into special jacket that communicate with the desktop by using usb cable. I Have made two partition, the second one has XP OS on it. How can I make the first partition bootable so I can access the second part of the hard drive so I can setup up windows? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ well what i would do is this.......by an ide adapter connect it to an ide cable as a slave drive...... ? and then load winxp on to it...>.http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/mgrtfset.mspx http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309000Have you tried to edit the boot.ini file located in X:\ where X is the letter of the partition Windows XP Professional is installed on. You can edit the boot.ini manually so that you can select from which partition you wish to boot.Thank you merlin and RAPTOR I will try to these neet tricks! actually I have already an adapter for my note book drive thanks you agin it make sense will keep you posted |
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