lucas4394 Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 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 fromhttp://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 thosenumbers?Thankslucas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucas4394 Posted February 16, 2003 Author Share Posted February 16, 2003 \edit your boot.ini and change the Windows XP line to partition(3),it still doesn't work, but thanks for your help.lucas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beeboy Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Here is info on how to repair boot with 2000 and xp.http://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net/dualboot/repairdualboot.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucas4394 Posted February 16, 2003 Author Share Posted February 16, 2003 Here is info on how to repair boot with 2000 and xp.http://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net/dualboot/repairdualboot.htmlBeeBoy, your link provides some great information i need to know.However, i am really a newbie in this kind of information. i willkeep trying.thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 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#Task4Hope this helps ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucas4394 Posted February 17, 2003 Author Share Posted February 17, 2003 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#Task4Hope 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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