boot.ini is on the wrong partition

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I just formatted and installed Windows XP last night. I have two partitions on one physical drive, C and D. Windows is installed on C. All my data is on D. Today I find out that somehow the XP boot files (boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, and ntldr) ended up on my D partition. I have no idea how or why this happened. I went into Disk Management and Windows says that C is my boot drive but D is my system drive. How do I move those boot files back to C where they belong? I have seen some stuff on Google about this, but most of it is about editing the boot.ini rather than actually moving it and making it work. Here is my current fuxored boot.ini for reference:

Code:
[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
 
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