dual booting

[ManDooM]

I'm dualing it with two copies of XP Pro corporate. Can I switch the order in the prompt on startup so it defaults C: instead of the other?

 

[Navid]

You can.

The setup is in the boot.ini file, which you can edit with notepad.
The boot.ini file is on the active partition. It should be your C drive.

Edit it and change the partition number on the line starting with default to point to the other partition.
If the other partition is on another physical drive, you will have to change the disk number also.

 

[futuristicmonkey]

Originally posted by: Navid
You can.

The setup is in the boot.ini file, which you can edit with notepad.
The boot.ini file is on the active partition. It should be your C drive.

Edit it and change the partition number on the line starting with default to point to the other partition.
If the other partition is on another physical drive, you will have to change the disk number also.

Yeah, put this in a batch file:

@echo off
attrib +a -s -h -r c:\boot.ini
edit c:\boot.ini
attrib +a +s +h +r c:\boot.ini

If you don't know how, open notepad, copy and paste everything from the @ to the .ini of the last line. Then, save as "editboot.bat" (with the quotes, name doesnt matter, but the .bat does). Then, just save to desktop and double-click to use

 

[ManDooM]

Thanks guys. worked like a charm