Boot.ini and sata

[pinki]

i have a ASUS k8v with 2 regular ide chains 2 southbridge sata chains and a promise controller which is disabled.

i have 3 hdds 2 opticle drives

2 hhds on the first ide chain 2 opticle drives on the second ide chain

and the 3rd drive is on the first (0) sata chain of the south bridge

i just installed the newer version of xp-64 bit edition on the primary pata drive

the second pata drive is storage

and i have my regular xp-32 bit on the sata drive wich has two partitions

i have 2 boot.ini files one on the sata and one on the primary pata drive i am currently using the one on the pata drive to boot to 64 bit an dthe other to boot to 32 bit and i have to change the primary boot devive in the bios to change my operating system

how do i edit the boot.ini to have my menu work here is what i have tried so far that hasnt worked

[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="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /noexecute /fastdetect
multi(1)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(2)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(3)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(1)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(2)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(3)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

could someone point out to me what im doing wrong

 

[Smilin]

I kinda skimmed this, sorry.

The short but solid answer:
Make sure that a good MBR, boot.ini ntldr and ntdetect are all on the drive that BIOS is pointing to for boot. No getting around that.

Boot to recovery console and type:
bootfcfg /rebuild

Let it add the entries for you.