**** note me previous e-mail wrapped the text.
/fastdetect should be on the same line following "Microsoft Windows XP"
Also there needs to be a space between "Microsoft Windows XP" and
/fastdetect
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Xandros
"Xandros" <arron.neus*remove*@gmai.lcom> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Edit the boot.ini file on the first drive to include a pointer to the
> second drive. To do that boot into Windows MCE. Right click My Computer
> and select Properties. Select the Advanced Tab. Click the Startup and
> Recovery section Settings button. Click the Edit button to open boot.ini
> in Notepad
>
> add this line:
>
> multi(0)disk(1)rdsk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP"
> /fastdetect
>
>
> Save the file and reboot.
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>
> Xandros
>
>
> "Ken K" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:81335750-494C-4BEE-93E4-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I have 2 hard drives, on the original hard drive is Windows Media Center
>>that
>> HP had " added controls, it keeps doing stuff I dont want, that asside, I
>> added a second drive and loaded xp pro on it, after I got it to run
>> correctly
>> I started to get bogged down with svchost.exe getting into a loop and
>> keeping
>> CPU cycles busy at about 50%, I believe it was caused when Microsoft
>> update
>> did not fully install something, reason I say that, it when I would do an
>> end
>> task on the svchost.exe and do an update request. it wud start all over.
>>
>> to resovle the svchost.exe problem I did a checkpoint restore.
>> I had checked for viruses, did disk scan, check for all that stuff and
>> could
>> not find any other possable cause.
>>
>> When I went to restore my "original "c" drive, I accidently restored it
>> to a
>> checkpoint BEFORE I installed my 2nd hard drive. I mistakenly thought
>> they
>> were asking me about a magic Jack & a jump drive I had disconnected (to
>> prevent confusion ( I know, I confused myself)) and just as I hit ok for
>> the
>> checkpoint to proceed I realized my mistake.
>> Now when my machine comes up, at the boot question screen, it no longer
>> asks
>> me which system I want to boot from.
>>
>> Is there anyway I can get that restored? so that it will boot from either
>> drive?
>>
>> Hoping someone can help me.
>>
>> --
>> Ken K
>
>
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