Multi-Boot HDD

[rojanu]

Hi everyone!

I am trying to put AIO-DVD on an external HDD. To make the drive bootable, I made the HDD only one on a system then start XP setup and let it reboot, that gave me a bootable HDD with a XP boot image in the MBR.

Then I followed the guide on the AIO-DVD to create PRO1.DAT and added an entry into BOOT.INI. Now I get the Windows boot menu and when I choose PRO1 entry I get missing HAL.DLL.

Finally, the question is, does what I did make sense at all?

If it does, Where did I go wrong and what can I do?

Thanks.

[amd64lover]

if you are trying to put more than one OS one there, i dont think you need an XP boot image on the drive. try following his guide exactly and obtaining the boot folders, renaming them, deleting/editing files, chaining the image file, etc.... let us know how that works.

[rojanu]

OK but how can one write an boot image to the MBR then

[amd64lover]

the AIO-DVD is booting from cdshell, which gives you an option of which operating system to start....

[jaclaz]

If you mean how do you put MBR BOOTABLE CODE into MBR, you can use:

FIXMBR from recovery console

or MBRFIX:

http://www.sysint.no/Nedlasting/MbrFix.htm

http://www.sysint.no/Nedlasting/MbrFix.zip

and, optionally, my pseudo GUI for it:

http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.net/

http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...X/mbrfix0.2.zip

jaclaz