Cann't boot partition F

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I have booted partition C in the past. I used "Ranish" to set partition F as
Active but partition C booted instead although a few of the desktop icons
were changed. When I checked the partitions, partition C is labed "system"
and partition F is labeled "active". How do I boot partition F?
 
When I was using W98, I never had to update any boot.ini file!
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b11_ said:
When I was using W98, I never had to update any boot.ini file!
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That's because Win98 didn't have a boot.ini file. XP is a different
operating system.

Malke
 
U gotta do bootini & r u in 4 some fun :)

Hidden partitions count in these lines:

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

& 'Windows XP Professional' could be any text. Mine often
says "DONT PICK ME" for non-active partitions :)

HTH-Larry

When I was using W98, I never had to update any boot.ini file!
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Any advise given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS (Normally, Usually, Generally, Sometimes :)
 
Windows XP is not in any way, shape or form an descendent of Windows 98.
Windows 98 runs on top of DOS, Windows XP does not use DOS. The boot.ini
file tells Windows XP which hard drive and partition to boot from. Windows
98 relied on an Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files as part of the boot
process.

JS
 
Anybody know of a DOS utility that would fit on a floppy disk and would make
it easy to modify boot.ini without booting into Wxp?
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Don't want a multi-boot. I just want to be able to boot a different partition.
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As JS attempted to explain, the booting is controlled by the
entries in the boot.ini file which is read by ntldr (the boot loader) -
whether or not you're doing multi-booting. So we can know what
is going on in your system, please supply the following info:

1) Verify that partition F is a Primary partition and *not* an
Extended partition.
2) Using Notepad, open the boot.ini files in partition C: and
partition F and list them them for us.
3) Verify that partition F is marked "active" using Disk
Management. If right-clicking on "Local Drive (C:)"
shows the words "Mark Partition as Active" is grayed out,
it's the active partition.
4) Tell us on how many HDs your partitions reside.
5) If you have more than 1 HD, tell us if your BIOS allows you
to manually readjust the booting priority of the HDs.

*TimDaniels*
 
b11_ said:
Don't want a multi-boot. I just want to be able to boot a different partition.
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Include in your info what partitions you have, which are Primary,
which are Logical Drives in an Extended partition, and what
physical order they are on the HD(s). Disk Management will
show all that.

*TimDaniels*
 
1) Verify that partition F is a Primary partition and *not* an
Extended partition.
2) Using Notepad, open the boot.ini files in partition C: and
partition F and list them them for us.
3) Verify that partition F is marked "active" using Disk
Management. If right-clicking on "Local Drive (C:)"
shows the words "Mark Partition as Active" is grayed out,
it's the active partition.
4) Tell us on how many HDs your partitions reside.
5) If you have more than 1 HD, tell us if your BIOS allows you
to manually readjust the booting priority of the HDs.
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5 tasks is 4.5 too many 4 b11_ :)

Just my 2¢ worth. Larry

Any advise given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS (Normally, Usually, Generally, Sometimes :)
 
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