Re: Dual boot problem, no Win2000 option

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:21:41 +1000

"Don Abel" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:703401c4945b$5c767b60$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a dual boot system configured as follows:
>
> 1) Two hard disks
> 2) The first hard disk is the boot disk, is drive c:, is
> 40 GB, has a single FAT32 partition, and is loaded with
> Win ME.
> 3) The second hard disk is drive d:, is 60 GB, has a
> single NTFS partition, and is loaded with Win 2000.
>
> Everything worked fine intil drive c: failed. I used this
> event to create a new drive d: by mirroring the existing
> drive d: to a new larger, 120GB drive. I used the drive c:
> of an identically configured second computer to mirror a
> new drive c:. This second computer is identical in both
> hardware and software. In fact, is was originally loaded
> by mirroring the drives of the first (failed) computer
> system.
>
> The BIOS is correctly identifying the two new hard disks.
> On startup of the system, I am able to boot into Win ME,
> but it doen't provide the normal option to boot into
> either Win ME or Win 2000, so I am not able to get into
> Win 2000 anymore.
>
> My c:\boot.ini file is as follows:
>
> [boot loader]
> timeout=15
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft
> Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
> C:\="Microsoft Windows
>
>
> How can I restore the dual boot capability?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Best regards,
> Don
>

- Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com.
- Make sure that the hidden files c:\ntldr and c:\ntdetect.com exist.
- Run this command:
   bootpart winnt boot:c:
You can get bootpart.exe from here:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

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