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A few weeks ago I bought a new maxtor diamondmax 300GB Sata (to be used as my
new boot drive) and had some installation problems to which I later found out
was due to a compability issue with Nforce4 mobos. Before I knew this I
installed the HDD and tried using MaxBlast 4 to copy all the files from my
current boot drive. I kept getting random lock-ups and crashes while copying
files. Everytime I rebooted after that I would get prompted to choose which
O/S I wanted to load even though I only have one installed. Only one of the
selections would work properly, the other one giving me a file missing error.
I have since upgraded the HDD firmware and it is now working fine. However, I
just used MaxBlast 4 again and copied all files from my old boot drive to the
new one successfully and still get prompted to choose which O/S to load. How
can I fix this?
 
One selection works and the other does not if i am understanding correctly.
What has happended is that there are two entries in the boot.ini file (I am
assuming).

Open the c:\ drive (or your equivilant) and go to tools, folder options, and
select the view tab, select "Show Hidden files" and then uncheck "Hide
protected operating system files", then click o.k. This will make visible
your boot.ini file that is located on the c:\ partition (otherwise know as
the System Drive). Open the file with notepad and make the appropriate
edits. I can not tell you exactly since I do not know your configuration,
but it should look some similar to the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=15
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect


Note: the partition (1) may differ, depending where your default O/S is
located. Mine looks as follows because I do have a dual boot:

[boot loader]
timeout=15
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

Essential what that says is my default o/s is on partition 2, so it will
timeout to that partition if I dont select which one I want to boot into. As
you can see I can choose partion 2 or 1 to boot into.

You just need to make the appropriate correction. If you only have the one
o/s and it is in the first partions then it will look like the first example
given.

More can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...0/server/reskit/en-us/prork/prbd_std_ccef.asp
 
scar69 said:
A few weeks ago I bought a new maxtor diamondmax 300GB Sata (to be used as my
new boot drive) and had some installation problems to which I later found out
was due to a compability issue with Nforce4 mobos. Before I knew this I
installed the HDD and tried using MaxBlast 4 to copy all the files from my
current boot drive. I kept getting random lock-ups and crashes while copying
files. Everytime I rebooted after that I would get prompted to choose which
O/S I wanted to load even though I only have one installed. Only one of the
selections would work properly, the other one giving me a file missing error.
I have since upgraded the HDD firmware and it is now working fine. However, I
just used MaxBlast 4 again and copied all files from my old boot drive to the
new one successfully and still get prompted to choose which O/S to load. How
can I fix this?
Click to expand...

Go to Start | Run. Type in msconfig, click ok. On the boot.ini tab
click on Check all Boot paths. It should find the one that is invalid
and offer to delete it for you.
 
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