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Posted this on the Microsoft Windows XP Newsgroups website and a guy by the
name of Rock put a link up and it took me here so this is my question:

Link here :
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&
lang=en&cr=US&mid=0695a084-5d89-4eed-8a9d-4c5fd6ebc475)

I

have 3 HDD's

1 Windows XP Pro - 120GB - currently drive letter C

2 Windows Vista Ultimate (beta 5384) - 200GB - currently drive letter D.
(have d/loaded RC1 and plan to install it on this HDD)

3 Windows XP Pro - 200GB - currently drive letter E

I just did a fresh install of Windows XP Pro on drive C and when the PC
loads up there is no option to boot into the other two drives. Boots
straight
into drive C.

What gives and how can I get this resolved / fix?

Thanks for your help

God Bless

DBOY


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Thanks for your help

God Bless

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You have the XP drive as your system drive and when you installed XP you
caused 2 problems
1. You overwrote the Vista MBR with the XP MBR
2. You overwrote the Vista boot files on the system drive (C)

You also seem to have a boot.ini with only the one system in it. You can
add another record to your boot.ini to access the other XP system.
Can't help with restoring your Vista boot file short of reinstalling Vista.
Hopefully someone else can help. If the boot file were there, you could use
VistaBootPro to repair the MBR, but I don't think you can create a boot file
with it.

"Daniel" <parrot33@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
news:em4h9x%232GHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Posted this on the Microsoft Windows XP Newsgroups website and a guy by
> the name of Rock put a link up and it took me here so this is my question:
>
> Link here :
> (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&la
ng=en&cr=US&mid=0695a084-5d89-4eed-8a9d-4c5fd6ebc475)
>
>
>

I have 3 HDD's
>
> 1 Windows XP Pro - 120GB - currently drive letter C
>
> 2 Windows Vista Ultimate (beta 5384) - 200GB - currently drive letter D.
> (have d/loaded RC1 and plan to install it on this HDD)
>
> 3 Windows XP Pro - 200GB - currently drive letter E
>
> I just did a fresh install of Windows XP Pro on drive C and when the PC
> loads up there is no option to boot into the other two drives. Boots
> straight
> into drive C.
>
> What gives and how can I get this resolved / fix?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> God Bless
>
> DBOY
>


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Thanks for your help John, much appreciated.
This is the boot.ini file that shows under My Computer / Advanced /
Settings - Start up and Recovery / System Startup - edit

[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 /NoExecute=OptIn

So how do I add another boot.ini file to get into drive E?
I don't care too much about Vista as I have d/loaded RC1 and plan to install
it sometime.

Thanks for your help

God Bless

"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
news:e1BmAJ$2GHA.4560@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> You have the XP drive as your system drive and when you installed XP you
> caused 2 problems
> 1. You overwrote the Vista MBR with the XP MBR
> 2. You overwrote the Vista boot files on the system drive (C)
>
> You also seem to have a boot.ini with only the one system in it. You can
> add another record to your boot.ini to access the other XP system.
> Can't help with restoring your Vista boot file short of reinstalling
> Vista. Hopefully someone else can help. If the boot file were there, you
> could use VistaBootPro to repair the MBR, but I don't think you can create
> a boot file with it.
>
> "Daniel" <parrot33@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> news:em4h9x%232GHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Posted this on the Microsoft Windows XP Newsgroups website and a guy by
>> the name of Rock put a link up and it took me here so this is my
>> question:
>>
>> Link here :
>> (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&la
ng=en&cr=US&mid=0695a084-5d89-4eed-8a9d-4c5fd6ebc475)
>>
>>
>>

I have 3 HDD's
>>
>> 1 Windows XP Pro - 120GB - currently drive letter C
>>
>> 2 Windows Vista Ultimate (beta 5384) - 200GB - currently drive letter D.
>> (have d/loaded RC1 and plan to install it on this HDD)
>>
>> 3 Windows XP Pro - 200GB - currently drive letter E
>>
>> I just did a fresh install of Windows XP Pro on drive C and when the PC
>> loads up there is no option to boot into the other two drives. Boots
>> straight
>> into drive C.
>>
>> What gives and how can I get this resolved / fix?
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>> God Bless
>>
>> DBOY
>>
>
>


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duplicate this part of your entry and change the description between the " "
so you will recognise it. Then change the rdisk from 0 to 2 as I have done
in the example. If this doesn't work try 1 as the risc order doesn't always
match computer management.

> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional No 2"
> /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

"Daniel" <parrot33@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
news:euYcaU$2GHA.1068@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for your help John, much appreciated.
> This is the boot.ini file that shows under My Computer / Advanced /
> Settings - Start up and Recovery / System Startup - edit
>
> [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 /NoExecute=OptIn
>
> So how do I add another boot.ini file to get into drive E?
> I don't care too much about Vista as I have d/loaded RC1 and plan to
> install it sometime.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> God Bless
>
> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
> news:e1BmAJ$2GHA.4560@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> You have the XP drive as your system drive and when you installed XP you
>> caused 2 problems
>> 1. You overwrote the Vista MBR with the XP MBR
>> 2. You overwrote the Vista boot files on the system drive (C)
>>
>> You also seem to have a boot.ini with only the one system in it. You can
>> add another record to your boot.ini to access the other XP system.
>> Can't help with restoring your Vista boot file short of reinstalling
>> Vista. Hopefully someone else can help. If the boot file were there, you
>> could use VistaBootPro to repair the MBR, but I don't think you can
>> create a boot file with it.
>>
>> "Daniel" <parrot33@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:em4h9x%232GHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Posted this on the Microsoft Windows XP Newsgroups website and a guy by
>>> the name of Rock put a link up and it took me here so this is my
>>> question:
>>>
>>> Link here :
>>> (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&la
ng=en&cr=US&mid=0695a084-5d89-4eed-8a9d-4c5fd6ebc475)
>>>
>>>
>>>

I have 3 HDD's
>>>
>>> 1 Windows XP Pro - 120GB - currently drive letter C
>>>
>>> 2 Windows Vista Ultimate (beta 5384) - 200GB - currently drive letter D.
>>> (have d/loaded RC1 and plan to install it on this HDD)
>>>
>>> 3 Windows XP Pro - 200GB - currently drive letter E
>>>
>>> I just did a fresh install of Windows XP Pro on drive C and when the PC
>>> loads up there is no option to boot into the other two drives. Boots
>>> straight
>>> into drive C.
>>>
>>> What gives and how can I get this resolved / fix?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help
>>>
>>> God Bless
>>>
>>> DBOY
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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I will try that John and see what I get. Thanks for the help too Jason and
Bones.

God Bless

"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
news:u6dMVZ$2GHA.1796@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> duplicate this part of your entry and change the description between the "
> " so you will recognise it. Then change the rdisk from 0 to 2 as I have
> done in the example. If this doesn't work try 1 as the risc order doesn't
> always match computer management.
>
>> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional No
>> 2" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
>
>
> "Daniel" <parrot33@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> news:euYcaU$2GHA.1068@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Thanks for your help John, much appreciated.
>> This is the boot.ini file that shows under My Computer / Advanced /
>> Settings - Start up and Recovery / System Startup - edit
>>
>> [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 /NoExecute=OptIn
>>
>> So how do I add another boot.ini file to get into drive E?
>> I don't care too much about Vista as I have d/loaded RC1 and plan to
>> install it sometime.
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>> God Bless
>>
>> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
>> news:e1BmAJ$2GHA.4560@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> You have the XP drive as your system drive and when you installed XP you
>>> caused 2 problems
>>> 1. You overwrote the Vista MBR with the XP MBR
>>> 2. You overwrote the Vista boot files on the system drive (C)
>>>
>>> You also seem to have a boot.ini with only the one system in it. You
>>> can add another record to your boot.ini to access the other XP system.
>>> Can't help with restoring your Vista boot file short of reinstalling
>>> Vista. Hopefully someone else can help. If the boot file were there,
>>> you could use VistaBootPro to repair the MBR, but I don't think you can
>>> create a boot file with it.
>>>
>>> "Daniel" <parrot33@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
>>> news:em4h9x%232GHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>> Posted this on the Microsoft Windows XP Newsgroups website and a guy by
>>>> the name of Rock put a link up and it took me here so this is my
>>>> question:
>>>>
>>>> Link here :
>>>> (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&la
ng=en&cr=US&mid=0695a084-5d89-4eed-8a9d-4c5fd6ebc475)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>

I have 3 HDD's
>>>>
>>>> 1 Windows XP Pro - 120GB - currently drive letter C
>>>>
>>>> 2 Windows Vista Ultimate (beta 5384) - 200GB - currently drive letter
>>>> D. (have d/loaded RC1 and plan to install it on this HDD)
>>>>
>>>> 3 Windows XP Pro - 200GB - currently drive letter E
>>>>
>>>> I just did a fresh install of Windows XP Pro on drive C and when the PC
>>>> loads up there is no option to boot into the other two drives. Boots
>>>> straight
>>>> into drive C.
>>>>
>>>> What gives and how can I get this resolved / fix?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help
>>>>
>>>> God Bless
>>>>
>>>> DBOY
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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> duplicate this part of your entry and change the description between
> the " " so you will recognise it. Then change the rdisk from 0 to 2
> as I have done in the example. If this doesn't work try 1 as the risc
> order doesn't always match computer management.
>
>> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional
>> No 2" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
>>
>>>>

And if you boot from the Vista DVD you can let it do a repair, from the advanced
option in setup, to get the Vista bootloader back.

ko van Zeeland


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I did what you suggested John and now I have my other version of Windows XP
showing up on the boot loader screen..... :-)
Cheers

I will try that ko van Zeeland...

God Bless

Daniel


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This should be what you are looking for:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529/en-us
Note though that some of the commands have changed in RC1 for instance where
you type -set is now /set

"Daniel" wrote:

> Posted this on the Microsoft Windows XP Newsgroups website and a guy by the
> name of Rock put a link up and it took me here so this is my question:
>
> Link here :
> (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&la
ng=en&cr=US&mid=0695a084-5d89-4eed-8a9d-4c5fd6ebc475)
>

>
> I have 3 HDD's
>
> 1 Windows XP Pro - 120GB - currently drive letter C
>
> 2 Windows Vista Ultimate (beta 5384) - 200GB - currently drive letter D.
> (have d/loaded RC1 and plan to install it on this HDD)
>
> 3 Windows XP Pro - 200GB - currently drive letter E
>
> I just did a fresh install of Windows XP Pro on drive C and when the PC
> loads up there is no option to boot into the other two drives. Boots
> straight
> into drive C.
>
> What gives and how can I get this resolved / fix?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> God Bless
>
> DBOY
>
>
>


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