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Old November 2nd, 2003, 01:21 AM
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Boot Menu on Crashed Drive
Hello all,

I had two drives running in my system, one of which had Win2K installed (Drive 0), and the other XP (Drive 1), selectable upon bootup with the standard XP Bootcfg partition menu.

This morning my Drive 0 crashed, and is unrecoverable. What I would like to do is simply boot the XP partition on Drive 1, by making that Drive my primary bootup drive. I can't seem to figure out how to do this. Do I have to set up another Bootcfg on the XP drive?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

_David
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Old November 2nd, 2003, 11:54 AM
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Old November 2nd, 2003, 11:59 AM
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Actually, the more I think about it, this is more of a recovery disk, allowing you to boot into a partition. It's not a permanent fix.
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Look at the boot.ini file on your primary boot partition. If you search MS there are kb articles about how to configure boot.ini to control windows startup.
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Doug you missed the point. Where the boot.ini was located no longer exists.

YOU CAN NOT MAKE YOUR D: DRIVE BOOT AND EXPECT w2k TO WORK. This is due to all the registry entries that say it is installed on d:. If you reset the drive to c: your w2k registry entries [like 4000 entries] will be invalid.

Install another drive as c:. Format it like the last drive [no addtional partitons] and then do a w2k repair from cd. Fixboot will write the boot.ini and alter the mbr so you can boot w2k again.
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