2011-06-24, 06:11
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Canada
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Computer Help - Changing Boot.ini, multi OS
I'm not really sure how it came about, but I have an IDE drive set as the master with win2000 on it (for some odd reason), and I added a SATA drive and installed a new copy of XP on it. I think I was planning on using the old IDE for a removable disk but when I remove it, it doesn't start up anymore.
I'm pretty sure it's a simple task of editing the boot.ini in msconfig but I'm not exactly sure what to change. Currently it looks like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microso ft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect Right now my only option is to remove both, make sure the SATA one is set as the master and reinstall, but that's a hassle so any help would be appreciated. |
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2011-06-24, 18:34
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portugal
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So you want to remove the IDE drive c: with win2k if I have understand correctly.
After removing IDE drive and starting with just the XP sata drive. Boot with winxp install disk and go recovery console and type: Bootcfg /list Bootcfg /rebuild It should fix everything up. Not sure since I haven't done this for god knows how long.
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2011-06-25, 17:34
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Canada
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I'm not sure exactly, but somehow the boot was on the IDE and the system was on the sATA. I take the IDE out and I have no boot record, couldn't even rebuild one on the sATA, or make a new MBR...or even a regular boot record.
At some point during the process I somehow erased the listing for XP, and it only started into a BSOD win2000. I gave up and reinstalled XP over my existing copy with no other drives. Recovery wasn't so bad /shrug  Thank you for the input though 
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2011-06-25, 23:03
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portugal
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Yeah... your boot was in the win2k. Thought the rebuild would do it. Apparently not. A more careful search...
FIXMBR C: FIXBOOT C: COPY CDDrive:\I386\NTLDR C:\ COPY CDDrive:\I386|NTDETECT.COM C:\ BOOTCFG /rebuild. I think you needed something like this. Not sure if FIXMBR C: is needed. Oh well if you have resinstalled. Sorry that I wasn't able to help you correctly.
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