X DarthMonkey X
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Here's the deal: I got a new motherboard (ECS nFORCE3-A. I'm not a big fan of ECS boards, but it beat that alternative: BioStar). But now that I've got the thing installed, it won't boot into Windows. I just says "Error loading operating system".
Now, I had this problem when I installed Linux and tried to do a wierdo dual-boot setup using two seperate hard drives. It didn't work, obviously, and I wound up just putting Linux on a hard drive with its own boot sector and all that, and just switching the boot priority in the BIOS when i wanted to get to it.
Anyway, I tried everything I know to do: boot using the windows XP CD and try FixBoot, FixMBR and BootConfig. I seem to remember that those didn't help last time either. I just don't remember how I DID fix it.
So here's the info you might need: ECS nFORCE3-A mobo. WinXP Pro. Windows is on a 40-gig IDE Drive while everything else is on a 250-gig SATA drive.
Now, I had this problem when I installed Linux and tried to do a wierdo dual-boot setup using two seperate hard drives. It didn't work, obviously, and I wound up just putting Linux on a hard drive with its own boot sector and all that, and just switching the boot priority in the BIOS when i wanted to get to it.
Anyway, I tried everything I know to do: boot using the windows XP CD and try FixBoot, FixMBR and BootConfig. I seem to remember that those didn't help last time either. I just don't remember how I DID fix it.
So here's the info you might need: ECS nFORCE3-A mobo. WinXP Pro. Windows is on a 40-gig IDE Drive while everything else is on a 250-gig SATA drive.