active disc / system disc help with 2 HDDs
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 8:54 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Matthew
(1 messages posted)
I'm in a real pickle here. It's been SOOO long since I've seen this, and I need
a hand. We attempted to ghost an hard drive to an external target drive of the same
make/model. Afterwards, we rebooted..but forgot to disconnect the external target
drive. Now in order to boot, both hard drives must be attached to the computer.
In windows disc management, we have one drive that says healthy (active) and one
drive that says healthy (system). If you disconnect the target drive, the PC will
boot to the light blue screen where you usually see the welcome screen / the accounts
to click on to access the PC, but all you see to the right of center is the windows
xp logo in front of the light blue screen and that is as far as it goes. I
used to know how to fix this, but I just can NOT remember! Isn't there a way to
put the XP SP3 disc in and boot from the disc to a repair menu to fix this? if so,
please post a step-by-step process or suggest another way to fix this? I just want
to be able to boot again from the orginal drive and have it setup as the active and
system drive.
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