Hard Disk Partition Revival

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Jacky Luk

I know that the partition I installed XP on a second drive isn't dead yet,
and I know it can be booted again if I rewrite the correct boot.ini. My
drive sits on physical disk "No. 2" and is the first partition. I want to
be able to revive this drive by modifying the boot.ini file. How do I
achieve this?

multi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional " /fastdetect

doesn't look good to me. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Jack
 
Jacky Luk said:
I know that the partition I installed XP on a second drive isn't dead yet,
and I know it can be booted again if I rewrite the correct boot.ini. My
drive sits on physical disk "No. 2" and is the first partition. I want to
be able to revive this drive by modifying the boot.ini file. How do I
achieve this?

multi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional " /fastdetect

doesn't look good to me. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Jack
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It should probably be
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional " /fastdetect
 
Yes, bingo. but This time with missing hal32.dll file, how do I rescue the
disk? Thanks
Jack
 
I suggest you start by explaining the history of your
machine in detail instead of dropping a few hints here
and there. How, for example, did boot.ini get lost?
 
I installed 2 copies of XP on different drives which were C: and D:,
boot.ini was stored in C drive, then C: crashed, boot.ini was lost,
reinstalled XP on C:, now I can't boot from D:....
Thanks
Jack
 
I am not at all convinced that the numbers in boot.ini are
correct. Here is what I would do:
- Play with the numbers, especially with partition(x); or
- Get a small hard disk 540 MBytes will do - your computer
dealer will probably give you one for free), then do this to
turn it into a boot disk:
1. Remove your new primary master disk.
2. Make the small disk the primary master disk.
3. Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk, then run
fdisk.exe to create a partition and to mark that
partition active. Now format the disk.
4. Boot the machine with your WinXP CD, get into
the Recovery Console and run fixboot, fixmbr and bootcfg /rebuild.

If your Windows installation on drive D: is bootable then you
should be able to boot into it, without interference from a
second installation of WinXP.
 
Jacky said:
I installed 2 copies of XP on different drives which were C: and D:,
boot.ini was stored in C drive, then C: crashed, boot.ini was lost,
reinstalled XP on C:, now I can't boot from D:....
Thanks
Jack
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What is in the boot.ini file? Mind printing its contents
in a reply?
 
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