Dual Boot - WinXP and WinXP ???

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

09 December 2004, 10:49 AM

Mick

Scooby Senior

Thread Starter

iTrader: (1)

Join Date: Nov 1998

Posts: 2,655

Likes: 98

Received 4 Likes on 2 Posts

Dual Boot - WinXP and WinXP ???

When I bought XP I set it up on my 2nd partition with WinME on the first as a dual boot system.
I have since taken the brave step of deleting WinME altogether

and thought I would set up XP fresh on my C: drive with NTFS - do the job proper like!

Anyway... 'imagine my surprise'

when I found I could no longer get hold of the dual boot option and can only boot into C: all my files are still there on D: and can be accessed, but it would be useful to still be able to boot into the old WinXP.

Is it possible?

Thanks

Mick

Reply Like

09 December 2004, 11:38 AM

Iain Young

Scooby Regular

Join Date: Sep 1999

Location: Swindon, Wiltshire Xbox Gamertag: Gutgouger

Posts: 6,956

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Can you not just edit boot.ini and add an extra line to it for the other operating system. Something like....

Code:

   
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn