second OS disseappeared from boot list

D

Danny

I have XP SP3 in Primary Partition. Server 2003 ENT in secondary Partition.
Earlier I had the option to boot from anyone at start-up of system. Now I
don't see the Server in the options to boot from.
Disk Management shows it.
My Computer shows it as well.
I can even explore it from XP and see all programs and documents.

This is a copy of what I see in Settings>control
panel>system>Advanced>>>Edit : startup and recovery

"[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
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect"

Anyone Please?
 
J

John John - MVP

Danny said:
I have XP SP3 in Primary Partition. Server 2003 ENT in secondary Partition.
Earlier I had the option to boot from anyone at start-up of system. Now I
don't see the Server in the options to boot from.
Disk Management shows it.
My Computer shows it as well.
I can even explore it from XP and see all programs and documents.

This is a copy of what I see in Settings>control
panel>system>Advanced>>>Edit : startup and recovery

"[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
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect"

Anyone Please?

If it's (Server 2003) on the second partition on the same disk as
Windows XP:

[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
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Server 2003"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"

John
 
D

Danny

John... It didn't work dear. After I select the Server OS from the list...The
screen just remains blank. No Action.
Please Help.

John John - MVP said:
Danny said:
I have XP SP3 in Primary Partition. Server 2003 ENT in secondary Partition.
Earlier I had the option to boot from anyone at start-up of system. Now I
don't see the Server in the options to boot from.
Disk Management shows it.
My Computer shows it as well.
I can even explore it from XP and see all programs and documents.

This is a copy of what I see in Settings>control
panel>system>Advanced>>>Edit : startup and recovery

"[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
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect"

Anyone Please?

If it's (Server 2003) on the second partition on the same disk as
Windows XP:

[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
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Server 2003"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"

John
 
J

John John - MVP

We need to know your disk and partition layout. Or you can try with the
Bootcfg command from the Recovery console.

For a computer with two hard disks the following would allow you to boot
from 4 partitions on each disk:

[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="Windows 0,1"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows 0,2"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows 0,3"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Windows 0,4"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows 1,1"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows 1,2"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows 1,3"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Windows 1,4"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"


Above also assumes that Windows is installed in the \WINDOWS directory.
The text between the quotation marks (like "Windows 1,4") doesn't make
any difference, it's only descriptive text for human eyes, you can put
what ever you want for the descriptive text, in the file above it just
refers to the disk and partition numbers. The all important information
is in the ARC paths such as:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

John
John... It didn't work dear. After I select the Server OS from the list...The
screen just remains blank. No Action.
Please Help.

John John - MVP said:
Danny said:
I have XP SP3 in Primary Partition. Server 2003 ENT in secondary Partition.
Earlier I had the option to boot from anyone at start-up of system. Now I
don't see the Server in the options to boot from.
Disk Management shows it.
My Computer shows it as well.
I can even explore it from XP and see all programs and documents.

This is a copy of what I see in Settings>control
panel>system>Advanced>>>Edit : startup and recovery

"[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
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect"

Anyone Please?
If it's (Server 2003) on the second partition on the same disk as
Windows XP:

[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
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Server 2003"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect"

John
 

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