a small urgent problem...
 

help!

i have 2 windows xp, one in c: and the other in d:.
but i had to reinstall the one in c:. so now, in the boot section, to choose wich os to run, it only apears the c: one!

plz tell me how to edit the boot.ini in a way to run the d: one again! i need it bad!

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its like this atm:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

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Um, download Mandrake 9.1 and install LILO on your machine (I'm sure there are other ways to do this). This will allow you to boot from however many OS's you want.

I think you can just add another "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micr osoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect" line or for whatever operating system you want to use.

the thing you want to change, is disk(0) to disk(1), you also might want to change the names so you can tell them apart:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional on C" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional on D" /fastdetect


That should work. It's been a while sence I've messed around with my boot.ini, but I think that's right. This is assuming your c and d drives are two physical drives, not two partitions on the same drive.

[edit] tried moving the S before [operating systems] to the previous line, but for some reason, the board keeps putting a return before there. that "S" should be attached to the "WINDOW" that comes before it in your boot.ini [/edit]

Windows XP also comes with a program called bootcfg.exe that you should be able to run from the command line that is supposed to make editing your boot.ini easier.
I use 2k, so I can't tell you how this works, sorry.