Boot Up

[chrisrod01]

At boot up is there a way to access my E: drive since it wont boot up by putting the E: drive in first priority?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Access it how and for what?

To be bootable it needs to have an active primary partition, and to have an OS installed to that partition (or at least the boot loader for an OS)

 

[chrisrod01]

The thing is i have a blank hd and I made a bootable xp to install and it wont recognize. (I think The cd was done right)

 

[DaveSimmons]

Then you need to make the CD drive the first priority

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, If the E: drive is not a boot drive then no way will it boot. If it's a HDrive it would have to have Command.com, a visible file and IO.sys plus Msdos.sys both hidden. They are required for a drive to boot. Format /s would have put them on. SYS C: would add them from DOS and XP probably has a function to do the same thing. If it's a CD and you burned it you would have had to tell the burner that you wanted it to be bootable.

Good Luck, Jim