Re: Dual boot

You probably installed XP on the 2nd hard drive while
the 1st hard drive which contained Win2K was disconnected.
The hard drive which is at the head of the BIOS's HD boot
order is the 2nd drive (which is what Ron should have asked
instead of which HD is "active" - "active" usually refers to
the primary partition that controls the booting). That your
2nd hard drive is at the head of the BIOS's HD boot order
is evidenced by the "0" in the "rdisk(0)" parameter. The 2nd
HD in the HD boot order is called "rdisk(1)", and that is
apparently your 1st hard drive, i.e. the one containing Win2K.
Assuming that the Win2K OS also resides in partition 1 of
its hard drive, you can add the OS on that HD to your boot
menu by adding the following entry to the boot.ini file that
you listed, using Notepad as your editor:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)windows= "Microsoft Windows 2000" /fastdetect

and set the timeout value to some reasonable number of
seconds, such as 5 or 10.

*TimDaniels*


"Sunshine" wrote:
Thanks for responding. XP is starting up; Boot.INI reads
as follows:
multi (0) disk(0)rdisk(0)partition 1windows=
"Microsoft Windows XP Pro" /fastdetect.
default-multi(0)disk(0)partition (1)windows
(operating system)
multi (0) disk(0)rdisk(0)partition 1windows=
"Microsoft Windows XP Pro" /fastdetect.

Check All boo thahs reads: It appears that all Boot.INI lines
for Microsoft operation systems are working properly

"Ron Sommer" wrote:
Which drive is the active drive?
Which system boots now?

If XP is booting, you can add Win 2000 line to the XP
boot.ini file.

If Win 2000 is booting, you need to replace the Win 2000
ntdetect.com with the XP ntdetect.com.
Also, add XP to boot.ini.

NTDETECT.COM, NTLDR and BOOT.INI are
boot files. The ntdetect from XP replaces the Win2000
ntdetect and will detect Win2000.
The Win2000 ntdetect will not detect XP.
--
Ron Sommer


"Sunshine" wrote:
: Please instruct me on creating dual boot using
: Win 2K and XP. I have 2000 installed on the
: first drive. It was installed 1st. I have XP installed on
: the second drive, It was installed last. Upon startup
: I do not get the option of which operating system to
: start. Please, help.
:
:



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