change multiboot to default to ME

[Maxine G]

A while back I got a new hard disk and installed Windows XP on it, leaving
Windows ME on my old disk. I have a boot.ini file on my old drive and get a
multi-boot menu.

Almost immediately I started to have unrecoverable disk problems on the new
disk and didn't have time to resolve it, so it's sitting there unused while
I continue using WinME on my old disk. I can't boot to XP at all at this
time.

When the dual boot menu comes up, Windows XP is the default and I have to
arrow down to Windows ME to start it. This is a little inconvenient. I've
tried a variety of ways to change boot.ini to make Windows ME the default,
and nothing works. I either get a message that there's a disk error, which
makes me think it's trying to boot to the new disk, or I get a message that
hal.dll is missing or invalid, which of course it is on the old disk.

Here's my current boot.ini file.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows"

Some of the things I've tried are:

1. default=C:\="Microsoft Windows" /fastdetect

2. I tried adding a new menu option
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows ME" /fastdetect
But when I tried to boot to that, I got an error message there too.

Let me know if you have any ideas about how to solve this. It's not
critical, but it would be nice.

Thanks,
Maxine

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

A while back I got a new hard disk and installed Windows XP on it, leaving
Windows ME on my old disk. I have a boot.ini file on my old drive and get a
multi-boot menu.

Almost immediately I started to have unrecoverable disk problems on the new
disk and didn't have time to resolve it, so it's sitting there unused while
I continue using WinME on my old disk. I can't boot to XP at all at this
time.

When the dual boot menu comes up, Windows XP is the default and I have to
arrow down to Windows ME to start it. This is a little inconvenient. I've
tried a variety of ways to change boot.ini to make Windows ME the default,
and nothing works. I either get a message that there's a disk error, which
makes me think it's trying to boot to the new disk, or I get a message that
hal.dll is missing or invalid, which of course it is on the old disk.

Here's my current boot.ini file.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows"

Some of the things I've tried are:

1. default=C:\="Microsoft Windows" /fastdetect

2. I tried adding a new menu option
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows ME" /fastdetect
But when I tried to boot to that, I got an error message there too.

Let me know if you have any ideas about how to solve this. It's not
critical, but it would be nice.

Thanks,
Maxine

Try this:
default=C:\

 

[Maxine G]

A while back I got a new hard disk and installed Windows XP on it,
leaving Windows ME on my old disk. I have a boot.ini file on my old
drive and get a
multi-boot menu.

Almost immediately I started to have unrecoverable disk problems on
the new
disk and didn't have time to resolve it, so it's sitting there unused while
I continue using WinME on my old disk. I can't boot to XP at all at
this time.

When the dual boot menu comes up, Windows XP is the default and I
have to arrow down to Windows ME to start it. This is a little
inconvenient. I've tried a variety of ways to change boot.ini to make
Windows ME the default, and nothing works. I either get a message
that there's a disk error, which makes me think it's trying to boot
to the new disk, or I get a message that
hal.dll is missing or invalid, which of course it is on the old disk.

Here's my current boot.ini file.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows"

Some of the things I've tried are:

1. default=C:\="Microsoft Windows" /fastdetect

2. I tried adding a new menu option
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows ME" /fastdetect
But when I tried to boot to that, I got an error message there too.

Let me know if you have any ideas about how to solve this. It's not
critical, but it would be nice.

Thanks,
Maxine

Try this:
default=C:\

Geez, I thought I'd tried every combination, but apparently not that one.
It worked. Thanks!

Maxine