YahoKa Posted September 25, 2001 Share Posted September 25, 2001 Ok, hear me out. Basically, my system configuration has 2 hard drives. One, a Maxtor Dimond Max, and the other is an ultra SCSI-2 SCSI drive. Now, what i have done is install Windows XP to the SCSI drive, and then formatted (well... destroyed) my IDE drive. So, now here is my problem: My floppy drive is not working, and i have no boot disk that the BIOS can recognize (it cant recognize SCSI drive). So, i used the windows recovery tool to reformat my IDE drive, as well as re-built the boot.ini onto it. Now, when i start up, the BIOS doesnt bother me, but all the windows boot thing says is "Press A key to restsart"! BTW: A re-install is not an option at this time... long story! PPLLEAASSE HELP!!! Oh, i call to the computer gods of neowin to help me to get this thing to boot of my SCSI drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted September 25, 2001 Administrators Share Posted September 25, 2001 Ok I read the other post first :) Here's my boot.ini. I have 2 ide drives and 1 scsi 1 ide drive (boot) contains win2k 1 ide drive contains win98 1 scsi drive has winxp on it [boot loader] timeout=5 default=signature(ccdf122b)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS [operating systems] signature(ccdf122b)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect C:="Microsoft Windows" Maybe you can do something with this info :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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