re: dual boot xp & win 2000
Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 11:01 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Anthony Bejarano
(3 messages posted)
I'm having some trouble understanding but I think you're saying that XP is installed
on the second partition of the master drive on the first IDE channel. Also that
your old drive is on the same channel as slave. Then the first and second lines
on the boot.ini reference your XP system. I think third line should be
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)
I think the count goes 0,1,2,3 for IDE1 master, IDE2 master, IDE1 slave IDE2 slave.
Otherwise the line would have to be
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1) if the count goes IDE1 master, IDE1 slave, etc.
By the way, if you put each disk as master and the CDROMS as slaves on each channel,
the system will be faster when it is copying or moving files from disk to other disk.
On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 7:20 pm, shepard wrote:
>Hi, I just bought a new computer with xp installed. I took my old hard drive and
>put it in the tower also, and want to be a able to run my old win 2000. My old
drive
>is partioned. Here is what I have so far,
>
>the xp root drive is c and there is a d partion as well. but the best I can tell
>it is on partition 2. This is set as the master drive.
>
>the other drive I installed shows up on the computer as G and H drives (partioned).
>This is set as the slave drive.
>
>I edited my boot.ini file as follows and the xp still works fine, but I get error
>messages for the 2000 boot. There must be a value to change to get this to work,
>I hope. If you have any ideas please help.
>
>[boot loader]
>timeout=5
>default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
>[operating systems]
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP" /fastdetect
>multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional"
/fastdetect
>
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