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Old November 1st 05, 03:20 AM
Maxine G
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Default 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

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mgusenet at pcg dot net
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Old November 1st 05, 03:51 AM
Pegasus \(MVP\)
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Default 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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Old November 3rd 05, 12:20 AM
Maxine G
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Default change multiboot to default to ME

"Pegasus \(MVP\)" wrote in
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"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

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mgusenet at pcg dot net
 




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