Boot.ini help needed please !!!

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Blacksmith

I installed a 160 Mb Western D. hard drive the other day. I tried
putting Win XP on it but it wouldn't take for some reason so I gave up
and decided to use it for a data disk and use the one I had been
booting from for Windows XP.

I was left with a boot.ini file that looked like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=signature(6ad8b0fb)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
signature(6ad8b0fb)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft
Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

That left me with 3 seconds to decide which of two identical choices I
wanted. One resulted in windows loading from my old drive. The other
ended with a dark screen.

I went to System Config. Util. and clicked on a button that detected a
line in the boot file that was unnecessary so I clicked a button to
delete the line.

Now I'm left with this:

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=signature(6ad8b0fb)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

Which gives me two choices again, but this time it's for XP or
Windows. XP loads windows from my old drive (which I now want) and
the Windows choice leads again to the dark screen.

All I want it NO choices. How do I change the boot.ini file to
accomplish this???

Ed


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Blacksmith,

you have to adapt the default line also, but the simplest way is
to do it through the graphical user interface.

Right-click on My Computer, select Properties, click on the
Advanced tab, the third settings button, then select your
default operating system, of which there is really only one.

Hans-Georg


Blacksmith said:
I installed a 160 Mb Western D. hard drive the other day. I tried
putting Win XP on it but it wouldn't take for some reason so I gave up
and decided to use it for a data disk and use the one I had been
booting from for Windows XP.

I was left with a boot.ini file that looked like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=signature(6ad8b0fb)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
signature(6ad8b0fb)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft
Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

That left me with 3 seconds to decide which of two identical choices I
wanted. One resulted in windows loading from my old drive. The other
ended with a dark screen.

I went to System Config. Util. and clicked on a button that detected a
line in the boot file that was unnecessary so I clicked a button to
delete the line.

Now I'm left with this:

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=signature(6ad8b0fb)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

Which gives me two choices again, but this time it's for XP or
Windows. XP loads windows from my old drive (which I now want) and
the Windows choice leads again to the dark screen.

All I want it NO choices. How do I change the boot.ini file to
accomplish this???

Ed


Blacksmith



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"adapt" the default line?
How do you adapt the line? Does that mean delete it?
Sorry, but I'm not familiar with the term.

Ed

Blacksmith,

you have to adapt the default line also, but the simplest way is
to do it through the graphical user interface.

Right-click on My Computer, select Properties, click on the
Advanced tab, the third settings button, then select your
default operating system, of which there is really only one.

Hans-Georg


Blacksmith said:
I installed a 160 Mb Western D. hard drive the other day. I tried
putting Win XP on it but it wouldn't take for some reason so I gave up
and decided to use it for a data disk and use the one I had been
booting from for Windows XP.

I was left with a boot.ini file that looked like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=signature(6ad8b0fb)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
signature(6ad8b0fb)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft
Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

That left me with 3 seconds to decide which of two identical choices I
wanted. One resulted in windows loading from my old drive. The other
ended with a dark screen.

I went to System Config. Util. and clicked on a button that detected a
line in the boot file that was unnecessary so I clicked a button to
delete the line.

Now I'm left with this:

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=signature(6ad8b0fb)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

Which gives me two choices again, but this time it's for XP or
Windows. XP loads windows from my old drive (which I now want) and
the Windows choice leads again to the dark screen.

All I want it NO choices. How do I change the boot.ini file to
accomplish this???

Ed


Blacksmith



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Blacksmith



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Thanks, but what can I do about it? Delete the line that starts with
"default"? Do I need to write "default" in front of the other line?



Multi (0) is your first drive that the os is looking for (1) is the second.
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Blacksmith



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Blacksmith said:
"adapt" the default line?
How do you adapt the line? Does that mean delete it?
Sorry, but I'm not familiar with the term.
Click to expand...

Ed,

adapt \e-"dapt, a-\ verb [F or L; F adapter, fr. L adaptare, fr.
ad- + aptare to fit, fr. aptus apt, fit] (15c)
verb transitive
: to make fit (as for a specific or new use or situation) often by modification
verb intransitive
: to become adapted
adapt•ed•ness noun

Synonyms
adapt, adjust, accommodate, conform, reconcile mean to bring one
thing into correspondence with another. adapt implies a
modification according to changing circumstances <adapted
themselves to the warmer climate>. adjust suggests bringing into
a close and exact correspondence or harmony such as exists
between parts of a mechanism <adjusted the budget to allow for
inflation>. accommodate may suggest yielding or compromising to
effect a correspondence <accommodated his political beliefs in
order to win>. conform applies to bringing into accordance with
a pattern, example, or principle <refused to conform to
society's idea of morality>. reconcile implies the demonstration
of the underlying compatibility of things that seem to be
incompatible <tried to reconcile what they said with what I
knew>.

(C)1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.
All rights reserved.

As I wrote, the simplest way is to do it through the graphical
user interface.

Right-click on My Computer, select Properties, click on the
Advanced tab, the third settings button, then select your
default operating system, of which there is really only one.

Hans-Georg
 
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