help with boot.ini

[Anchundan]

I have 3 hard drives in my PC :

Drive 1 :

500GB SATA (4 partitions, first is XP (Work), second is Vista (currently not installed), third is XP Gaming (just a bare minimum installation) and fourth is data.

Drive 2 :
160GB SATA (just using for backup)

Drive 3 :
80GB IDE drive. This is a spare drive which I have just installed Chinese Windows XP, as my girlfriend wants to use my computer when I'm away.

I've only just installed the Chinese XP, and am having problems getting the boot file right. Currenly it is :

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Main" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Gaming" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Since the Chinese XP is on another disk, I thought I could find it by changing Disk(0) to either Disk(1) or Disk(2), so for example, the entry would be either

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Chinese" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

or

multi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Chinese" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

But it can't find it. Am I changing the right thing, or should it be rdisk I should be changing?


It did load after installation the first time, but I rebooted after installing some other software and it just picks up the boot.ini on the SATA500 drive. Is there an easy way to find out what it should be? If not, how should I go about doing this?

 

[steve258]

The easiest way is probably to just use your mobo's boot up menu (F8 on ASUS mobos) and choose to boot straight from your 80Gb IDE without messing with the boot.ini on your 500Gb HDD.

 

[Anchundan]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I actually found the setting in the end. I should have changed the rdisk() setting instead of the disk() setting.

 

[Anchundan]

actually, now that I think about it, I might disable the English drives, to stop her messing things up when I'm away. She's only just started to use a computer, and is still pretty computer illiterate.