I have two hard drives on my machine. One of them has 2 partitions which are C and E drives,

and another has one partition, D. I installed windows 2000 on C, and windows XP on E. Unluckly,

i remove the boot.ini without backup. I tried to create my new boot.ini following an instruction from

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311578. And my boot.ini file looks 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="Windows 2000" /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

the 2000 could start up, but the XP couldn't. I have no ideas about multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1).

Could anyone please tell me know to fix? what is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)? How to find those

numbers?

Thanks

lucas

As you mentioned that Win2k and XP is on the same hard disk but split into partitions, and D is your 2nd hard drive... edit your boot.ini and change the Windows XP line to partition(3), I'm assuming multi, rdisk and disk don't need to be edited because win2k booted fine.

\edit your boot.ini and change the Windows XP line to partition(3),

it still doesn't work, but thanks for your help.

lucas

Here is info on how to repair boot with 2000 and xp.http://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net/dualboot/repairdualboot.html

Here is info on how to repair boot with 2000 and xp.http://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net/dualboot/repairdualboot.html

BeeBoy, your link provides some great information i need to know.

However, i am really a newbie in this kind of information. i will

keep trying.

thx

Windows XP has a utility to help you change the boot.ini settings...I'm not sure if its available in 2000...

Here we go:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...%3B289022#Task4

Hope this helps !

Windows XP has a utility to help you change the boot.ini settings...I'm not sure if its available in 2000...

Here we go:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...%3B289022#Task4

Hope this helps !

man, i spent a whole day to reinstall everything cuz i didn't know

how to detect those numbers in "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)".

thanks

No problem, lucas...This little prog is useful when you've deleted an OS and you don't want to go through unhiding your boot.ini and making it write and read and stuff like that...

Glad I could help!