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February 9th, 2002, 04:56 PM

jeffersno1

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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Win XP"

This is what the drive say in Win 2K
Win2000 (C

14.3G
Win XP (F

14.3G

From partition magic:

Win 2K C

Active
Win XP (F

None

Thanks

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February 9th, 2002, 05:02 PM

jeffersno1

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14.3G
Win2K (F

14.3G

From partition magic:

Disk Partition Type Status Pri/Log

1 C:Win2K NTFS Active Primary
1 F:WinXP NTFS None Primary

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February 10th, 2002, 06:25 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by jeffersno1
From partition magic:

Disk Partition Type Status Pri/Log

1 C:Win2K NTFS Active Primary
1 F:WinXP NTFS None Primary

Shouldn't be the case, but perhaps the Win2K partition comes first after all ... this is unscientific, but try to change

Code:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Win XP"

Code:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Win XP"

. I have no great hope that this helps, but give it a try anyway.

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February 11th, 2002, 11:02 AM

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got it sorted thanks very much for your help realnowhereman

i decided to delete the boot.ini files on both OS's and do a reinstall of XP and it seemed to work ok
Thanks again for your time