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Need help in editing boot.ini
So, I edited the boot.ini and system boots fine in XP.....I deleted the Win98 files on C: and would like to know if there is a safe way to make the C: drive be the XP Boot Drive Partition, the one and only XP drive...I can't find anything about bringing together the XP boot/system files that are on C: with XP that

Best way to create clean Windows XP boot cd for running rootkit de
How to Add an OS to the Windows XP Boot Menu by Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP. "Boot the XP CD and select the first repair option (Recovery Console) and run the bootcfg /scan command to see if bootcfg can find both OSes. Then run bootcfg /add to have the boot.ini file rebuilt to boot both.

Dual Boot - Linux Red Hat/XP
I am certain you will have to get the card/system/disk working correctly to get full use of the new drive and to avoid possible corruption from utilities that don't know better. Once you get that settled you can then get Linux running fairly easy. But DO check out how to dual-boot XP and Linux _before_ you start

Linux and XP Dual Boot?
David Candy dav...@sia.net.au microsoft public windowsxp perform_maintain V  your BIOS to boot from CD, Boot the 2000 CD and install, this will wreck XPs boot files. Then boot from XP's CD and go to the recovery console and type fixboot c: This will fix the XP's boot files (that 2000 is now also using).

Dual Boot setup after XP has been loaded
I have read through the referenced article, but I quote: "You have to install Windows XP only after installing MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows ME to prevent those operating systems from overwriting the Windows XP boot sector and the Windows XP startup files." Same roadblock. I read your note concerning

Dual Boot XP / Win98 - How?
Nick tansta...@pobox.com microsoft public windowsxp basics On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:46:41 -0500, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics, "Prilosec" <pur...@nni.net> wrote: Look in MSKB for XP boot disk utility. It is a downloadable file, which will expand to fill 6 boot floppies. This will boot you into XP from floppy

How to get ME boot back in XP dual boot after C disk trashed?
My sequence on boot now is: HD1/HD0/Floopy. HD1 is drive D: (WinXP). Thanks in advance. Wally How were you getting into XP before? A boot manager or just the XP boot files on C:? If a boot manager - which one? What repair options does it offer for picking up one of the operating systems it's managing?

Cannot boot to XP without CD-ROM in drive!!!
Actually XP DOES have a create a bootable floppy command. Open MyComputer and right click on drive A. However, the resultant floppy is NOT an XP boot floppy. It boots Millenium DOS. Thus it cannot read NTFS hard disks. Note, by the way, that XP debug and edlin (!) won't run under ME DOS because they are version

XP boot.ini: Can't find my win2000 disk
stevensly steven...@hotmail.com 24hoursupport helpdesk Philo, here's what my xp boot.ini file contains: ----- [boot loader] timeout=30 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 ----- Is there a

XP won't boot after loading win2kserver
F.Xavier Noria f...@retemail.es lucky freebsd questions On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:52:05 +1200 "Defryn, Guy" <GPDef...@massey.ac.nz> wrote: I want to dual boot XP and Red Hat Linux. Unfortunately it seems not has easy has dual booting 2000 and Freebsd. Any ideas? If it may help, I dual boot FreeBSD and Windows XP using

W98 configmg error on W98/xp pro dual boot machine
Len len...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware Sounds like it could be a not uncommon split OS setup which I have seen with XP. When configured so that XP will boot go to disk management and check the drives. It is very possible that your SATA drive will say "Boot" and your IDE drive "System" or some

Dual boot Win 95 / XP
Sean Murphy wrote: Its not really the hardware that makes XP boot slow but rather the length of time it has been installed on your computer. When I first installed it it booted really fast...almost faster than '98 but as the weeks went by I found that it got slower and slower until it got to a point where it just

Boot ini after XP
The OS needs to access it's boot files first, and <snip> Cheers FB, it does however, suggest that I'm not going to find an easy way of setting up a dual XP boot with my built in HD (C:) carrying my full build and the external drive (H:) carrying a slimmed down install with only an imaging prog to create backups of

boot firewire disk w XP boot disk
9) You need to mark the XP partition as the default 10) If you don't change the properties on the Windows XP boot selection, you *WILL NOT* be able to get back Time for another recap, giving explicit steps: vi) Install Boot Magic vii) Do a "properties" on the Windows XP boot menu entry viii) Check the "Override

GRUB optimal dual xp boot setup
Add the /SOS option after the /fastdetect option, and the next time you boot, you'll get gibberish on your screen instead of an XP logo with dots rotating under it. (But a linux boot still has lots more gibberish than an XP boot even with the /SOS option :-). Actually, you can put other options on there too (to do

SuSE 8.1, Win XP, Dual Boot, Two drives
"Robert Wright" <anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:00e201c3d22b$215e22f0$a401280a@phx.gbl... Installed XP on my multiple OS system. XP loaded a boot manager into the MBR. I already had Partition Magic as boot manager. Now, the XP boot manager has positioned itself to function following

Dual boot 2000 and XP
You don't need to hand over the MBR nor even a partition to LILO; you can use the old trick to have ntldr boot a LILO boot sector in a file on the XP boot drive. This is documented in an old NT4 multi-boot HOWTO, but the concept is simple enough to describe here. In your lilo.conf global section you would put "boot

Boot.ini ???
Boot... I tried the boot configuration in YaST2... No luck. I added a DOS/Windows section. I specified boot from hdb, but this choice doesn't "stick"... When I check the config later, it's listed as /dev/hda1/fd0/dev/hda1 I also tried hdb1 for the Win XP boot in the yast boot config panel. That won't "stick" either

If I only want XP boot up only
Change the default to xp and if I interrept it correctly that the pc will still detect there are still 2 os and although it boots straight to xp (with time=0). What I need to to set the pc boot to xp thinking that there is only I os. This will enable me to install the AV into xp. After that still want I change back

Cómo crear un CD de Windows XP SP2 -INTEGRADO Y ...
"pamelafiisc...@yahoo.com" wrote: What is the best way for mere mortals to create a CLEAN Windows XP boot CD? From a related thread on available rootkit detection utilities, it was suggested we attempt the Microsoft Strider GhostBuster Rootkit Detection method recommended by the Microsoft Windows Defender Strider