Dual boot with 2 drives

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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.
 
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.
 
**** 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
 
Ok I got it.
It does work now. Thanks
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Ken K


Xandros said:
**** 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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