boot.ini ?
 

problem :
can't acces XP anymore.

disk 1
c: win XP

disk 2
D: old PIV install
E: backup
F: win 2000
installed win 2000 after win XP.
what is wrong here, tried all different settings, but can't boot XP.
any help please.

take WinXP cdrom, boot from it, choose recovery console;

type "fixboot"

reboot

tried it, didn't work :(

I have 3 options when using fixboot :
1 windows (new install)
2 windows (old install)
3 WinNT

tried 1 and 2, no go.

"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect" is correct though :(


could try to add



multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

nope, didn't work.
tried fixboot again too, no go.

Happened to me twice last year with WinY2K and Win-XP, the MB master boot was corrupted. I had to reload. The second time it happened on another machine I finally dropped WinY2k. My only reason to keep two was the damn scanner did not have XP-driver support. Went out and bought a new scanner for $60; end the freaking headache.:D

"bootcfg /rebuild" ?

Or is this the same as "fixboot"? :D

bootcfg didn't work :(

maybe I'll try Lazyman's idea :p

You're gonna buy a new scanner? :D

I get that message sometimes when I'm overclocking.

lowering the overclock usually fixes the problem...


I never used that console though. I usually do a repair when something is terribly wrong. I think you can do a repair if you boot from the win xp cd and press F5 right away but I haven't tried that yet.


Also, I once replaced the boot.ini. Took it from one winxp and copied it to the other winxp. I don't know what I did for it to let me do that though because I tried the same thing again later on and that time, it didn't let me copy the file (in use by the os, even in safe mode it didn't work).