NTFS or FAT32 it doesn't make any difference to the boot.ini file. The
important thing is that the ARC path points to the proper location of
the WINDOWS folder. You can do it by trial and error or you can do as
Ramesh suggested in his post and use the bootcfg /rebuild command to
rebuid the file. If you want to do it by trial and error then put this
in the boot.ini file:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 01"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 02"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 03"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 04"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 11"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 12"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 13"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 14"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
That file will give you the option of booting on 4 different partitions
on the first 2 hard disks. The "Windows XP 01, 02, 03 ..." numbers are
just identifiyers that will allow you to identify and keep the correct
line that is used to boot the operating system. If you copy and paste
this to the boot.ini file and then save the file, the msconfig tool
should see all the entries and then scan your drives and inform you of
invalid entries. If none of these show as valid then the rdisk(#) would
need changing other valid numbers would be 2 & 3, that would point to
Hard disks 3 & 4 respectively:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 21"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 22"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 23"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 24"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 31"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 32"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 33"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 34"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Don't try to stick all these lines in the boot.oni file at once because
the maximum number of lines in the [operating systems] section of the
Boot.ini file in Windows NT/2000 is 10 and I think that the same applies
to XP. Any additional lines will not show on the boot menu at startup time.
John
no said:
thanks for your quick nreply.
I have two phycial drives.
I THINK that one has C: and D;: on it and the other is my F: drive.
C and D are NTFS and F is Fat 32. does any of this make any differance now??
THANKS!!!
Copy and past this to the file:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
That will work if Windows is on the first partition on your first disk. If
Windows is on a different disk or partition then you will have to change
the rdisk and partition fields accordingly, for example:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
points to the second partition on the first disk.
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
points to the first partition on the second hard disk... and so on.
You can use the msconfig utility to verify the validity of the entries.
John
no one wrote:
I am running windowsxp pro
I had been getting the ntlrd file missing.
Somehow I got to windows and now I tryed to go into system restore and it
told me no boot.ini file did I want to make one.
I said yes.
well now my boot.ini file is blank.
I am afraid to try to boot from the cd since it didnt work befor. got to
windows using a floopy called ntlrd fix.exe from a support site.
can anyone help??
thanks