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so i have two hard drives in my computer. one of them is c: and previously had windows xp home on it. i did not use this drive at all, after i replaced it with my other hard drive. the other hard drive is d: and e:, one of the partitions (d:) has windows xp home on it currently. i want to boot from that disk, as it is the drive i wish to use. however, whenever i try to boot from it, the piece of shit tells me it is an invalid system disk. so, in order to get to windows at all, i had to reinstall windows xp professional (only thing i have lying around). now, i no longer get the option to choose which drive to boot off of, as it defaults to the prof. edition.
i have well over 100 gigs of shit on the hard drive that contains both d: and e: and do not wish to lose that. i've tried changing all the options in bios to get it to boot from the d drive, but nothing works, every time it says invalid. before formatting the c: it booted from the d drive perfectly fine, however it gave me an option as to which windows system to boot. now it does not give me that option...
any advice? can give more details if necessary, but i think that should be plenty to get you started.
i've tried google and all those fucking things say are to make sure it's valid! well duh! it is valid, windows just fucking sucks.

ummm hopefully im understanding it correct....
sounds like D: isn't currently setup as a system drive. even though windows might be installed on D: doesn't mean it was the boot drive.
if the drive is still accessable. with the 100 gigs on it. unplug your C: drive and reinstall windows on D: hopefully the partition is intact and you can actually do it. Hopefull the setup should make that drive the system drive.
originally the system files were all on C: drive despite a dual boot system. the important stuff was on C: telling it you had an OS @ c:\windows and at d:\windows with all sorts of other special files. got rid of that and well the computer didn't know what to do.
any way try reinstalling the operating system. BUT you dont need to reformat if your partition is intact. So skip any thing about formating.
hope that helps.......................

Right Click your My Computer, and select properties. Click Advanced, then Startup and Recovery Settings.
You can change and add OSes to the Boot menu there.

but that's exactly what was going on...