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change multiboot to default to ME
A while back I got a new hard disk and installed Windows XP on it, leaving
Windows ME on my old disk. I have a boot.ini file on my old drive and get a multi-boot menu. Almost immediately I started to have unrecoverable disk problems on the new disk and didn't have time to resolve it, so it's sitting there unused while I continue using WinME on my old disk. I can't boot to XP at all at this time. When the dual boot menu comes up, Windows XP is the default and I have to arrow down to Windows ME to start it. This is a little inconvenient. I've tried a variety of ways to change boot.ini to make Windows ME the default, and nothing works. I either get a message that there's a disk error, which makes me think it's trying to boot to the new disk, or I get a message that hal.dll is missing or invalid, which of course it is on the old disk. Here's my current boot.ini file. [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect C:\="Microsoft Windows" Some of the things I've tried a 1. default=C:\="Microsoft Windows" /fastdetect 2. I tried adding a new menu option multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windo ws ME" /fastdetect But when I tried to boot to that, I got an error message there too. Let me know if you have any ideas about how to solve this. It's not critical, but it would be nice. Thanks, Maxine -- mgusenet at pcg dot net |
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change multiboot to default to ME
"Maxine G" wrote in message 7.102... A while back I got a new hard disk and installed Windows XP on it, leaving Windows ME on my old disk. I have a boot.ini file on my old drive and get a multi-boot menu. Almost immediately I started to have unrecoverable disk problems on the new disk and didn't have time to resolve it, so it's sitting there unused while I continue using WinME on my old disk. I can't boot to XP at all at this time. When the dual boot menu comes up, Windows XP is the default and I have to arrow down to Windows ME to start it. This is a little inconvenient. I've tried a variety of ways to change boot.ini to make Windows ME the default, and nothing works. I either get a message that there's a disk error, which makes me think it's trying to boot to the new disk, or I get a message that hal.dll is missing or invalid, which of course it is on the old disk. Here's my current boot.ini file. [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect C:\="Microsoft Windows" Some of the things I've tried a 1. default=C:\="Microsoft Windows" /fastdetect 2. I tried adding a new menu option multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windo ws ME" /fastdetect But when I tried to boot to that, I got an error message there too. Let me know if you have any ideas about how to solve this. It's not critical, but it would be nice. Thanks, Maxine -- mgusenet at pcg dot net Try this: default=C:\ |
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change multiboot to default to ME
"Pegasus \(MVP\)" wrote in
: "Maxine G" wrote in message 7.102... A while back I got a new hard disk and installed Windows XP on it, leaving Windows ME on my old disk. I have a boot.ini file on my old drive and get a multi-boot menu. Almost immediately I started to have unrecoverable disk problems on the new disk and didn't have time to resolve it, so it's sitting there unused while I continue using WinME on my old disk. I can't boot to XP at all at this time. When the dual boot menu comes up, Windows XP is the default and I have to arrow down to Windows ME to start it. This is a little inconvenient. I've tried a variety of ways to change boot.ini to make Windows ME the default, and nothing works. I either get a message that there's a disk error, which makes me think it's trying to boot to the new disk, or I get a message that hal.dll is missing or invalid, which of course it is on the old disk. Here's my current boot.ini file. [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect C:\="Microsoft Windows" Some of the things I've tried a 1. default=C:\="Microsoft Windows" /fastdetect 2. I tried adding a new menu option multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windo ws ME" /fastdetect But when I tried to boot to that, I got an error message there too. Let me know if you have any ideas about how to solve this. It's not critical, but it would be nice. Thanks, Maxine -- mgusenet at pcg dot net Try this: default=C:\ Geez, I thought I'd tried every combination, but apparently not that one. It worked. Thanks! Maxine -- mgusenet at pcg dot net |
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