TriBoot Setup but only one OS

[Grassman1]

I have two harddrives with a Tripple boot configuration. Here is the partition setup.

Disk 1- Partition 1=Win98SE
Partition 2=Win XP Home
Partition 3=My Music
Partition 4=My Pictures

Disk 2- Partition 1=Win 2000 Pro
Partition 2=Storage

After formatting a thrird drive for a friend connected in my disk two location I lost the wid 200 pro boot option.

I found a couple posts that the boot.ini file needed to be changed in order to load the first partition of the second disk.

After changing the boot.ini file the 98 partition was not bootable and is not accessable from dos to modify the boot.ini file.

Im not sure but this is what the boot.ini file should look like:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi<0>disk<0>rdisk<0>partition<1>\windows

[operating systems]
multi<0>disk<0>rdisk<0>partition<0>\windows=&quot;windows 98SE&quot;
multi<0>disk<1>rdisk<0>partition<1>\winnt=&quot;win 2000 pro&quot;

Windows XP was installed by making the second partition on disk one active so it was never an option on the multi boot screen.

I am using boot magic Partition Magic 7.0 which is installed on the 1st partition of disk 1. I cannot access the 1st partition of disk 1 or disk 2 because of advanced partition hiding enabled in partition magic.

How do I access the first partition of disk 1 to change the boot.ini file? Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[SYAR2003]

Put in the xp cd and do a repair installation of the windows-xp installation at the d: drive .

windows updates has to be reapplied , thats it .


syar

 

[wolluf]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

(if you need help with repair reinstall).

If you read my post in the one above yours, it tells you how to make a boot flopy which would boot your XP too (but the repair reinstall should sort your out).