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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: peter on September 29, 2002, 01:50:44 AM
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i have on one the primary master drive winxp
then on the primary slave drive i have winme
both 40 gig hard drives
winxp is oem instalation with hidden 4.5gig partition so no boot disk or copy of xp on cd
i am told to edit boot.ini but i dont know how or what to enter
pqboot magic wont work !
currently im using the scsi bios to change the boot drive
but i have to be fast with this and im getting old and slow
as the years creep along
any help would be welcomed
agh what the hell flame me for being a dumb ass as well !
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Peter first there are no masters and slaves in scsi drives , you only have host adapters ,and scsi id.
Try this boot.ini :
[boot loader]
timeout=8
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
d:=Microsoft Windows Millennium
I suppose your win me is on drive D:
and win xp is on drive C
Boot.ini , ntldr , and ntdetect.com must be on your boot drive but those are hiddenfiles , and boot.ini is read only ,so you have to make them unhidden and read write before you change them in the \"tools , folder options \"menue .
rdisk(0) is the c drive rdisk(1) your D drive