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June 24th, 2005 21:00
dual boot with 2 HD's
I Installed a 2nd HD and cloned my first HD to it as a backup on partition #1
and would like to be able to dual boot. This is XP Pro.
I cannot boot from the 2nd hard. If I disable the primary
drive by removing the power plug I am able to boot from
the 2nd HD. The computer sees everything and I can use
all the partitions. In dual if I try and use the 2nd drive I
get this message:
Windows could not start because of a hardware configuration
problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. check boot
path and disk hardware.
In the boot.ini I use this setting on primary HD
[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" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional BACKUP"
/fastdetect
What should the boot.ini look like in the second HD
thank you
and would like to be able to dual boot. This is XP Pro.
I cannot boot from the 2nd hard. If I disable the primary
drive by removing the power plug I am able to boot from
the 2nd HD. The computer sees everything and I can use
all the partitions. In dual if I try and use the 2nd drive I
get this message:
Windows could not start because of a hardware configuration
problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. check boot
path and disk hardware.
In the boot.ini I use this setting on primary HD
[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" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional BACKUP"
/fastdetect
What should the boot.ini look like in the second HD
thank you



oldtraveler
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June 25th, 2005 15:00
[boot loader]
timeout=03
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="C Drive\Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS="I Drive\Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect