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Oops.... Boot.ini

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Ivar

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Hi all!

I have a quick one for you....
I have one hd partitioned in three ways (I could dual-boot it)
Partition one: Win ME,
Partition two: W2K,
Partition three: Misc stuff, no operating system.

Now, all my data is on the W2K partition, and I only used ME for gaming. I grew tired of ME and wanted to install XP, I didn´t want to lose all my W2K stuff in this experiment so I just decided to thrash the ME partition. I installed XP on it and formatted the partition.
Due to a slight judgement error I completely forgot that the boot.ini was on the ME partition and forgot to back it up. Now when I boot the computer I go straight to XP and I can´t use W2K.
Could someone help me to correct my boot.ini so I can dual boot again?

W/best regards,
Ivar
 
lol...just edit the newer boot.ini and add this:

[boot loader]
timeout=15
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Pro" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows 2K" /fastdetect
 
Thanks a bunch 😉

It worked. 🙂

Everyone is allowed a little "brain fart" every now and then, right? 😀
 
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