cassy309

i don't know if this will help, it did that to me as well but i have two hard drives installed it kept going to my f: drive when i wanted to install on my c:drive well this is what i did. (and i think did it by accident i don't remember for sure) i pressed esc and then i saw the list of my drives the i selected the c drive i don't know why it does this though, it wasn't always doing that to me.good luck

hi everyone i am in a bit of a jam i have two hard drives (multiboot) in my pc when i first installed my new drive which at the time was seen from the c: drive as an f: drive the problem is now that the drive letters are changed on both sides i am on my c: drive right now and when i open up my computer the drive letters are as follows, local disk c: local disk d: 3 1/2 floppy a: cd-rw drive e: dvd drive f: and when i upload pictures from my digital camera that turns into drive :g and when i boot into the the slave drive the c is my master drive it looks like this local disk c: local disk f: 31/2 floppy :a cd-rw drive: d dvd drive :e i haven't uploaded any pictures on this drive i just store them on it but i am guessing it would be drive :g as well before all of this no matter what drive i was on the drive assignmet would stay the same (the 2nd drive assignment i have listed) is there a way for me to get it back the way that it was all i did before this happened was re-install windows xp home and i had to add my other drive to the boot loader but now that drive is gone it died and i have a new one i formatted it and installed xp home and the drive letters were still screwed up.

update: i had alot of problems with my c drive so i out it through tests and come to find out the drive was in terrible shape it had to be replaced i wrote zero's to this drive to erase everything and that didn't even work thank goodness i was still under warranty i got a new drive.

well these past fewe days are not goig well for me i should of installed sp1 before i upgraded but i did it after and i did not archive it and it did not install correctly now it's telling me to do a reapair

now for all those updates

everything is working fine thankyou all except for that strange drive assignment thing i am logged into my c: drive on the xp pro side which i just upgraded it was xp home before. the drive lettering on this side is local disk c: , local disk d: , 3 1/2 floppy a: ,cd-rw drive e: and dvd drive f: and on my xp home side local disk c: , local disk f: , 3 1/2 floppy a: , cd-rw drive d: and dvd drive e: strange i wasn't like that before but hey it works and i can't complain. i would like to thank jrzycrim for sticking by me through this whole ordeal cheers to you. i don't think the driver assignment will make the system upstable since they are two different hard drives.

ok i am back and i am logged in on the d drive thankyou so much but something is weird when i open up my computer the driver assignments are not like they are on the c: drive side they are as follows local disk c: and f: 3/ 1/2 floppy a: then the dvd drive e: and cd-rw drive d: this is the way i had it before i got myself into this mess. i thankyou again for walking me through this even though i am not done yet because i have to upgrade the xp installation that is on the c drive to xp pro i forgot that i didn't upgrade it yet so now i have 2 xp home installations and my boot.ini files says home and pro but thats fine.

yes i have two different drive the first one is a 20gb wd and the 2nd one is a 160gb wd

i'm sorry yes the other drive still contains the windows installation here's what the boot.ini looks like now [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="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

i am going to open up the boot.ini right now and copy what is posted here

i am on the c: drive right now the fresh install side i can't boot into the d: drive which was the f: drive before

i re-installed windows xp home on the c: drive and now i cannot multiboot at all here is what my drive letters are now local disk c: local disk d: 3 1/2 floppy a: cd-rw drive:e dvd drive :f so i am back where i started accept that the drive letters have changed

ok will do that and see thanks so much

i have no idea on whats going on with my pc at the moment i put the xp disk in and when i go to repair it's showing only a "d" so i repaired that "d" drive it it happened to be the drive that i am in now which is my "f" drive my drives are set up as follows in my computer: local disk c: local disk f: 3 1/2 floppy a: dvd drive:e cd-rw drive:d when i boot from cd it is not showing me any c or f drives

can't i just re-install xp so the installation can repalce the file that is missing or corrupt i have nothing on that drive which is c: i am on the f: drive or is it easier the way you guys told me?

i am stuck

ok i will do that i will let you know after i am done thanks again

here's what i am getting when i try to boot into windows xp pro windows could not start because the following files is missing or corrupt WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM you can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup cdrom select 'r' at the first screen to start repair. i am going to try to repair it if this doesn't work then i will try the recovery console i would like to thank all of you for helping me in advance i will let you know what worked.

i did what you guys told me to do but now i cannot log into xp pro i am on the xp home side that i was trying to log in into here's what my boot.ini looks like at the moment it said something about a repair on the c: drive side when i treid to boot into it. i will restart to see what it is saying [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS [operating sytems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows xp Professional" /fast detect multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partiton(1)\WINDOWS=" Microsoft Windows xp home" /fast detect

is it best to do this in safe mode? just in case i mess up

thanks davexp but how do i edit it ?

hi i am so glad i found this site it's so cool i'm cassy309 i am looking forward to learning new things and making new friends

hi does anyone know how i can get my multiboot screen back? i have two hard drives one which is the c: drive it has xp pro on it and the other which is my f: drive the problem is i re-installed xp on my c: drive and now i can't log into the f: drive which has xp home i can access the files and everything but i want to switch between the two. the xp pro was an upgrade from home abd it has nothing on it but xp pro.