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 Aug 21 2004, 06:53 PM
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Junior  Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 30-April 04 Member No.: 18916  |
I wanted to find out how to modify the boot.ini file so that i can boot to XP home on a differnet fixed disk, it is my friends but i am unable to boot to it, any help would be appreciated, thank you.
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Aug 21 2004, 07:57 PM
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MSFN Junkie Group: Members Posts: 4164 Joined: 19-May 04 Member No.: 20315 
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hi, in the boot.ini file u have, it gives the location of your partition your OS is installed 2, u can copy that & change the numbers for the other drive so it could/should work
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Aug 22 2004, 05:33 AM
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MSFN Junkie  Group: Software Developers Posts: 3624 Joined: 23-July 04 From: Italy Member No.: 25215 OS: none 
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Boot.ini is quite simple, here is an example:
CODE [Boot Loader] ::This is the title of the 1st section Timeout=5 ::This is the timeout before default item is loaded Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT ::This is the default item [Operating Systems] ::This is the title of the 2nd section ::Following are actual entries ::First part is the arc path to the partition ::Second part (after the = sign) is the text you see followed by OPTIONS multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Win2k 1st disk 1st partition" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Win2k 1st disk 2nd partition" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT="Win2k 1st disk 3rd partition" /fastdetect :: and so on... multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Win2k 2nd disk 1st partition" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Win2k 2nd disk 2nd partition" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINNT="Win2k 2nd disk 3rd partition" /fastdetect :: and so on... Here is the complete reference to arc paths: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;q102873 Here is the complete reference to OPTIONS: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/bootini.shtml Here is a good GUI editor for Boot.ini: http://www.dx21.com/SOFTWARE/Dx21/ViewItem...I=2&SI=2&OID=14 Here is the "MAGIC" program that lets you repair Boot.ini, the bootsector of the drive and many more: http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm jaclaz |
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Aug 22 2004, 05:18 PM
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The truck or you is disabled? Group: Members Posts: 313 Joined: 2-July 04 From: United States Member No.: 23860 
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Too bad I didn't have this information when I was looking for it several months ago, thanks for the info...
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