Small Problem With Dual Hd's

[cazzman]

Yellllllllo,

if oyu guys can help me it would be great, my dads 'slightly anxious' about what i did to his computer.

anyhooow, heres the story..

i've posted about this before so, sorry to annoy.. but..

hd1 - win2k on it. This was the first hd and os installed. is on slave.

hd2 - winxp on it. This was the second hd and second os installed. Master.

right, hd1 is 30 gig and was the first hd installed. hd2 is brand new and ive just finished installing xp. problem is, theres no boot menu!

so, it automatically loads xp. I installed xp second as told by another member, but it still didnt create a boot menu.

Should i make hd1 Master and hd2 Slave?

Thanks,

Cazzman.

[DaveXP]

you need to edit the boot.ini so it includes windows 2000 and yes make hd1 the master and not the slave.

[cazzman]

right.. thanks dude..

[XPerties]

Your first OS should ALWAYS BE ON MASTER. Never go messin with the master or slave settings unless you know what your doing.

[DaveXP]

right.. thanks dude..

So your boot.ini should be 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="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

[cazzman]

It still doesnt work..

i tryed what you said terminator 3, then i tried what a friend said which was basically the same code as yours except that it was:

Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)

hd1 - win2k - (was slave for install, now master)

hd2 - winxp - (was master for install now slave)

So, my friend said that i shouldnt have made hd2 master, because when i changed it back to slave i stuffed it all up. so... when i chose xp from the boot menu it says something about not being able to load windows 2000 files, even though i selected xp.

if you can help great, but if this is a major booboo, i can just reinstall xp (as slave.. )

Thanks,

Cazzman.

[cazzman]

yellllo,

i fixed it..

reinstall as slave..

thanks for your help anyway though...

Thanks,

Cazzman.