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Re-installing Windows XP onto a second hard drive

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I’ve got an old PC, which has a failing C: drive in it.* This PC has only 512 MB of RAM, and it is expensive RAM so I don’t want to upgrade to 1 GB.* It also has a second hard drive, as the D: drive, which works fine.* I am thinking of installing XP Pro onto the D: drive.* What I’m wondering about is will there be a problem making this the primary drive, especially if the C: drive fails me completely?* I believe there is a file called BOOT.INI which lists the hard drives and which one is the primary drive, etc.* My guess is that BOOT.INI is on the C: drive.* If C: fails, then won’t that make it impossible for the machine to know which is the correct boot drive?

 

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