Re: boot.ini and msconfig can't find 2nd boot partition ?
- From: "Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:13:21 -0800
When cloning an OS that is in the Win2K/NT/XP family,
don't let the clone "see" its "parent" OS when the clone
is started up for the FIRST TIME. It seems to get confused
in subtle ways (sometimes not so subtle). But after that
first startup without its "parent" visible to it, it can be started
up thereafter with its "parent" OS visible to it, and it will
consider its "parent" just data on another partition.
(The "parent" can be started up with its clone visible to
it with no problem - allowing you to modify the clone's
boot.ini file before the clone's first startup if you want.)
The easiest way to render the "parent" OS invisible to
the clone is to disconnect the "parent's" hard drive. If
the standard configuration existed in the source HD,
(with the boot files in the same partition as the OS), the
boot files will have been copied over in the cloned partition
and they will boot up the clone exactly as they had done for
the "parent" OS. Thus, to boot the clone for the first time,
you don't have to readjust the BIOS's hard drive boot order
or fiddle with the hard drives' jumpers - just disconnect
the source hard drive.
*TimDaniels*
"Saran" rapped:
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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