boot.ini

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Microsoft

I have 3 drives in my PC and a CD/RW

I have Windows ME on my C: Drive (Primary IDE Master)
Nothing on my D: drive (Primary IDE Slave)
CD RW as my G: drive (Secondary IDE Master)
Windows XP Home on my E: drive (Secondary IDE Slave)

I want to delete ME from my system and then move my Windows XP drive from
Secondary Slave, to Primary Master.

I think I have to change the settings in my BOOT.INI before I make this
change or I will have issues trying to access my NTFS drive from floppies?

The BOOT.INI looks like this at the moment, and it currently sits on the C:
drive.

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect
C:\="Windows ME"

What should the above be changed to when I have only XP on my system, and
the XP drive is primary master?

Will I also have to copy boot.ini onto the XP drive root instead of my ME
drive root?

Many thanks for your help,

Si.
 
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Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)

After you change the drives, you will have to perform a repair install by
booting from the Windows XP CD. This will repair all the pointers in the
registry that now say the system is installed on drive E: and change them to
indicate drive C:, the new relative position of the operating system.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :)
 
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Willie

I just tried this on my system which had WIn98 on C (primary HD) and
WinXP on I (secondary HD). After problems not being able to access
CD-ROM drives and having to put I386 on HD, I now have a system where
most of the pointers in the registry are STILL pointing to I:\, causing
most things to not run!
How do I get the registry pointers corrected? Regedit and RegEdt32 do
not have a Replace function, and it will take hours to try to manually
find and modify all the pointers! Any suggestions?
 
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Richard Urban

If you have, say, Office, installed on I:, you will have to reinstall it on
drive C:.

Everything you want to be on C, has to be reinstalled on drive c:

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :)
 
W

Willie

Then obviously Repair or update install is worthless if the drive letter
changes, since you have to reinstall every application! Far simpler to
reformat and install from scratch!
 
R

Richard Urban

Absolutely! Repairing a defective install (including one that went other
than where you desired it to go) is more trouble than it's worth.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :)
 

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