Re: boot.ini and msconfig can't find 2nd boot partition ?

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I don't think that is correct Tim. Changing the boot order in the BIOS does not change the Arc Path of the devices and the second (Slave) hard disc on the secondary IDE channel is rdisk(3).

John

Timothy Daniels wrote:

Your boot.ini for the configuration of HDs that you have is correct.
That is, if the BIOS's *hard drive* boot order is "HD1, HD2, HD3",
the "rdisk" parameter in the boot.ini entry should be "2", as you
have it. Have you checked in the BIOS that the hard drive boot
order is, indeed, "HD1, HD2, HD3"? Your current controler/channel
connections would produce the order "HD1, HD2, HD3" only in the
default mode. If you used Ghost to do the cloning, did you tell it to
copy the MBR as well? Is HD3's partition #1 a Primary partition?
(If it is a "Logical Drive" in an Extended partition, it will be numbered
*after* the Primary partitions have been numbered, and it will be
partition #2.)

When you get this sorted out, and after the shift of HD3 to the 2nd
position in the hard drive boot order, i.e. "HD1, HD3", HD3 will be
referenced with the parameter "rdisk(1)" in the boot.ini file
*TimDaniels*

"Saran" wrote:

Hi, I'm just installed a new hard drive, on the secondary IDE controller, as a slave to my DVD DRIVE.

So I now have a total of 3 HDs.

I've used partition magic to clone my first HD and second HD (both of which had just one partition on each) onto the new drive. I then trimmed out all the unneeded fat from the cloned cloned C: partition which is now on the new (3rd) hd, because I want to use it as a BACKUP boot partition, where I can copy the windows folder to from time to time and if something ever happens to the real C: (first HD) I can boot from the other one and restore the core system stuff or a whole backup if need be.

The problem I seem to be having is configuring my boot.ini

It seems anything I do, the checker in msconfig always barfs on the 2nd entry I make to boot.ini


[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Win XP Pro (Main)"
/fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Win XP Pro (Backup)"
/fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn


I've tried makign the backup entry

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(1)

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(1)partition(1)

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)

to no avail.

Basically my ssytem is like this:


HD 1 (Primary, Master) - P 1: "Drive C:" --> "(Main)"
HD 2 (Primary, Slave) - (wiped, used to be "Drive D:")
DVD (Secondary, Master) - (DVD RW)
HD 3 (Secondary, Slave) - P 1: "Drive I:" --> "(Backup)"
P 2: "Drive D:"

I: was cloned from C: and resized to a minimal size after throwing out anything not needed from it.
D: take up the rest of the space on this new, big (third) hd.


It seems every article I come across explains the meaning of multi, disk, rdisk, and such differently and I can't seem to find the right way to do it so msconfig doesn't barf.

ALSO, I will soon be removing "HD 2" and will put "HD 3" (the new one) in "HD 2"'s spot.

So I'd appreciate the corect configuration of both spots.


(((Is there no way to get a list of how the system seems the drives in the same format as boot.ini uses? That would of made things much easier I think.)))

Thanks for any help.


.

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