Re: Dual Boot - need Boot.ini help

Patti,

I apologize for the dumb question. I had eye surgery recently and
haven't got my big monitor set up yet; on this little one, I
completely missed your answer. I've followed your directions and am
now the proud owner of a dual boot system. Thank you! :-)

`
Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Delicious!
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:37:33 -0700, LadyDungeness@xxxxxxxx wrote:

|How would I change the boot.ini so that two hard drives are indicated?
|I can fix the others.
|
|Lady D
|
|
|
|On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:42:00 -0700, Patti MacLeod
|<pam120@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
||Hi LadyDungeness,
||
||Your boot.ini file does not indicate an operating system on a secondary
||(slave) drive, it indicates two operating systems on two separate partitions
||of a single drive. Also, Win2000 usually installs to a folder named WINNT not
||Windows.
||
||Assuming that Win2000 is the operating system on the slave drive, and
||assuming that it is installed on the first partition and not the second
||partition (as your current boot.ini file indicates) of that drive, your
||boot.ini file should look more like this:
||
||[boot loader]
||timeout=30
||default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
||[operating systems]
||multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP Home" /NoExecute=OptIn
||multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Win 2000"
||
||
||
||Regards,
.

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