Hi there:

I'm trying to have a dual boot having XP and 2003 in my PC. I have one hard drive for XP and one for 2003. The hard drive that has XP is set as the master and 2003 as the slave. When I boot the PC and I log into XP i'm able to see the other hard drive with 2003 but I can't can't to dual boot.

Here's my boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn


I have playing with the Boot.ini but not luck. Any help is appreciated, also I'm if I can have remote assistance will be great if I can't figurate out.

I installed 2003 from the CD in a different hard drive 160 gig and for windows XP i used a 60 gig.

Here's my most recent boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003"/fastdetect

Here are some screenshots of my hard drives

http://www.impactos.biz/windows2003/disk.JPG

and this one is the root of windows 2003

http://www.impactos.biz/windows2003/2003.JPG

thank you

I believe the second entry needs to be multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003 Server" /fastdetect

also, that space between the WINDOW and S in the default line bothers me...

This is mine...:



I don't know what rdisk mean but I guest that you should remove the "1" to put a "0"

LOL, I didn't see it

The "disk" entry is used only in SCSI setups and should always be 0 in IDE configurations.