help with my boot.ini file

[lockmac]

Hi. The main OS that i use is XP Pro which is on my SATA drive. I have a IDE drive that I have installed XP x64 onto, and am having trouble editing my boot.ini so that I can boot the x64 OS.

This is the current boot.ini that I am trying to use to load the x64 version of windows, but when I select the x64 OS at startup, it just comes up saying that the ntoskrnl.exe is missing and that I need to reinstall that file, but if I change my boot order in BIOS so that my IDE HDD is first, I can boot the x64 version without troubles

[boot loader]
timeout=2
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 bit" /fastdetect


Any help would be appreciated. By the way, this extra line that I added into the boot.ini was just guesswork, im not actually certain if its right, but when I go into msconfig, and get it to check that all the boot paths are correct, it says that they all seem to be fine

Thanks

 

[hopejr]

It might be that the boot loader is 32-bit and the kernel for XP x64 is 64-bit? Then again, I have no idea either.

 

[stars]

These links may help you:

http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php/t2681.html

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu.../XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmc_str_masc.asp

 

[Smilin]

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