Boot.ini Disk issue


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I had a dual boot setup with XP and Vista on my SATA. Then I formatted the Vista partition and attempted to install 5219, and I couldnt install to the partition b/c it was SATA, and apparently there are issues with Vista and SATA at the moment.. So I connected a 20gb IDE drive as primary master, and installed 5219 to it. Now my problem is the boot menu. Where is an IDE primary master? Should there be a definite location for it?

I changed Longhorn to (0)(0)(1)(1), (0)(0)(0)(2) .. I always get a hal error.. so I figure I'm not hitting the right location.. here's my boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT 
/USENEWLOADER
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" 
/NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT

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I think you need to define for us what OS is installed on what drive, and what IDE channel each drive is on. Right now you made the boot loader look for Vista on the Primary IDE Master on a 2nd partition.

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1) would be a 2nd physical drive, first partition.

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I8PP,

on the Primary IDE Master, 1st partition I have Vista installed.

On SATA, which comes up just fine with (0)(0)(0)(1), I have my XP Pro installation.

I have tried 2 other options in attempt to find Vista, both of which gave me Hal errors.. (0)(0)(1)(0), and (0)(0)(0)(0).

Any other suggestions? Is there an app that can find this info out?

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Now since i don't use SATA, i don't know how that works in boot.ini but since you have an IDE hdd on the primary master with Vista on it:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADER

should be the line for it without the SATA drive plugged in. With it in, i don't know what order comes first, SATA or IDE... if it doesn't work, you might want to incrementally change the rdisk value, leave partition(1), it's never 0.

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