Dual boot to single boot w/ 2 drives

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@hamhamlabam wrote:
I've searched around the forums and I haven't quite found the answer I was looking for my problem. I have two hard drives with two different OS on them. My primary drive has XP Pro and my secondary drive has XP Home. And it's in dual boot. I am trying to put my second drive the one that has XP Home on it into a different pc. I would like to know how I can set it up so both drives can boot seperately by themselfs, seeing how I want both drives in two different computers. The primary drive will boot by itself in the pc but the 2nd drive wont. Whenever I try to boot from it I automatically get a boot error.

Whenever I take the second drive out of my pc and into another I do change the jumper cables so that it says it's master and not slave. I can enter the BIOS and I did so to check to see if it's booting from the hard drive, which it is.

Since the second drive works fine when I put it back into my pc as a secondary drive to my primary drive (and dual booting it) does this mean I should change the boot.ini or something? I'm not even sure how to go about with this.

Any help would be nice

1) You cannot move boot drives from PC to PC unless they are identical.

2) IF your computer came with XP Home, it belongs to your computer.  Moving it to another computer is a violation of the EULA (End User License Agreement).  If it's a retail copy, you can move it and then reactivate it.  However, you will need to reinstall it.

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@hamhamlabam wrote:
-,- My pc came with XP Pro. The pro is still in my pc. What do you mean by "you cannot move boot drives from PC to PC unless they are identical" ?

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Boot drives, moved to another PC, won't boot unless the configuration is 100% identical.

XP Home, assuming it's a retail copy, must be re-activated on your new computer.  If it's an OEM copy, it cannot be moved.