Error modifying boot.ini file

[Jon]

Hi,

I currently have two seperate hard drives installed on my
machine, one running win2k and one which was ghosted to
winXP.

I want to modify boot.ini so that I can boot into either
operating system but everything I've tried so far has not
worked.

Any help on how to modify this file would be appreciated

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft
Windows 2000 Server" /fastdetect
multi(1)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows XP
Ghost Image" /fastdetect

thanks

jon

 

[Jeff Patterson [MSFT]]

Jon,

If both drives are on the same controller, the syntax for XP would be:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows XP Ghost Image"
/fastdetect

For more information, please refer to the following article:

311578 HOW TO: Edit the Boot.ini File in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311578

Jeff Patterson
Microsoft Support