Dual Booting Woes

svan · 13 Oct 2007 at 01:26

Hello All,

I have one hard drive with 3 partition running XP Pro, 2000 Server and 2K3 Server.

I had to reload the XP OS over the existing XP partitions and now only the XP Partition is show in the boot OS
option screen. They are not listed in the performance tab now either.

Does anyone know how i get get to boot from the partitions again, without having to reload the other two OS
again??

Any help appreciated :rolleyes:

Burnsy2023 · 13 Oct 2007 at 01:35

Go to the start up and recovery options in the system properties.
Click the edit button.
Add lines like this where you can change the number of the logical partition and then the system root path (e.g. Windows/Winnt)

Code:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition([I][B]1[/B][/I])\[B][I]WINDOWS[/I][/B]="[B][I]Microsoft Windows XP Professional[/I][/B]"

Burnsy

modo77 · 13 Oct 2007 at 01:36

You'll need to modify the boot.ini to show the other 2 OS's
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022

Have to ask, do you really need 3 OS's?

Burnsy2023 · 13 Oct 2007 at 01:37

modo77 said:
Have to ask, do you really need 3 OS's?

I was going to comment on that, I hope they're all properly licensed

Burnsy