Lost Multi Boot

[Sparky19692]

Ok Let me try to explain what I have and my problem
I have XP loaded on C: and XP64 on E:
About a week ago I had to restore XP pro from a image due to a Virus issue. All went great with that part except that I lost my dual boot so that I can startup in XP64. I really do not want to reload XP64 is there anyway that I can recover this without reloading?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Sparky19692]

No Ideas?

 

[bacillus]

Have you tried going into the restore console and running the fixboot command?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

what do you mean reloading? from what it sounds like, just install a bootloader, like grub.

 

[imported_justbrowzing]

if you're using ms's version of dualboot then you're going to have to re-install the x64 because the oldest program must always be installed first. Once you reloaded your regular xp you broke the rule and lost your dual-boot, since 64 then became the first install butis newer than xp. Also the boot loaders are different and 64's doesn't recognize xp's. I had this happen once for similar reasons and I had to reinstall my xp 64 to get my dual-boot working again. I've had no luck with Bootmagic, for what it's worth--it's a very confused and confusing program.

 

[bazcor]

I've never done this so I well could be wrong here.You could go to command prompt and run the utility called bootcfg.I think that bootcfg /query brings up a list of available operating systems but whether it actually searches for them on the hard drive is another thing.

 

[TGS]

Check your boot.ini. You should see something like:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Add below it:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition" /fastdetect

 

[fuzzynavel]

Originally posted by: TGS
Check your boot.ini. You should see something like:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Add below it:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition" /fastdetect

Obviously changing the "0's" in parenthesis according to your system setup.....he's not necessarily going to have xp64 on partition 3!!

are you still able to see any of the files on XP64 or has your image program reset your partition table....

If you have a copy of partition magic lying around it should be able to help wiorkout the state of your partitions!

 

[TGS]

linky

 

[fuzzynavel]

Good link TGS....useful!