wyattXP Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 Boot.ini is quite simple, here is an example:[Boot Loader] ::This is the title of the 1st sectionTimeout=5 ::This is the timeout before default item is loadedDefault=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 OPTIONSmulti(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Win2k 1st disk 1st partition" /fastdetectmulti(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" /fastdetectmulti(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Win2k 2nd disk 2nd partition" /fastdetectmulti(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;q102873Here is the complete reference to OPTIONS:http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/bootini.shtmlHere is a good GUI editor for Boot.ini:http://www.dx21.com/SOFTWARE/Dx21/ViewItem...I=2&SI=2&OID=14Here is the "MAGIC" program that lets you repair Boot.ini, the bootsector of the drive and many more:http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htmjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisabledTrucker Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 Too bad I didn't have this information when I was looking for it several months ago, thanks for the info... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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