Re: Boot.ini problems

On which HD did the boot.ini file reside?
Are the files ntldr and ntdetect.com next to it in the folder?
Are these files also found on the other HD?
What are the contents of the other HD's boot.ini?
Does the OS on the SATA HD call its partition "D:"?
Does the OS on the PATA HD call its partition "C:"?
Are there any other partitions on either HD? How many
on each HD?

The more questions you answer, the better will be the help.
In the meantime, to simplify the situation, manually remove
all the entries under "[operating systems]" except the 1st two.
Do this with Notepad or by running msconfig and clicking
on the tab "Boot.ini". Don't click "Check all boot paths".
For now, leave the default entry as it is.


*TimDaniels*




"Sirnose66" wrote:
I have 2 installations of XP Home edition on seperate drives, one SATA,
the other on the primary ide. When I boot up instead of getting a screen
to select which to boot from, I get invalid boot.ini message, booting from
drive c. The system then proceeds to boot from the sata drive, which
is d (!). I have tried using bootcfg /rebuild in recovery console but this
just seems to add more entries to the boot.ini without solving the
problem. I have also tried using the 'Check all boot paths' button in
msconfig but this reports that there are no problems (!!). I have posted
contents of my boot.ini file below, if anyone can tell me how to safely
edit this to resolve the problem, I will be very grateful.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (Main)" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (Main)" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


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