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Trouble booting.

by peteryoungblood86 Feb 19, 2009 10:35PM PST

Hello. I had two hard drives installed in my computer and set it up to be able to boot from either drive into XP. One is SATA and the other IDE. I removed the IDE drive because it is having some problems. However, now, I cannot boot using my SATA -- I get the "select proper boot device" error. I've gone through the recovery console and rebuilt the boot.ini file and ran CHKDSK with no errors reported. I've tried FIXBOOT and FIXMBR.
One thing I noticed is that, prior to removing the IDE drive, the SATA drive letter was D:. Now, the recovery console seems to recognize it as C:. Would this make the system unable to find the proper files to boot?

System details:

AMD64 4200 Dual Core (2.3 GHZ)
4 GB DDR2 RAM
320 GB SATA HD
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Windows XP Professional x64

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