Creating a multi-drive boot disk

[Steve Elliott]

Can someone point me in the right direction ?

Here's the situation: I have two hard drives with two versions of Win XP
Home installed. How do I create a floppy boot disk that will give me the
option to boot from a different drive. Main Win XP resides on a partition
of C, whilst the other version is Drive L.

Thanks.

Steve.

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q305595
HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP

You would need to create a BOOT.INI file, just as the one in your existing
system, that has then entries for both OS's.

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"Steve Elliott" > wrote in message
...
> Can someone point me in the right direction ?
>
> Here's the situation: I have two hard drives with two versions of Win XP
> Home installed. How do I create a floppy boot disk that will give me the
> option to boot from a different drive. Main Win XP resides on a partition
> of C, whilst the other version is Drive L.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve.
>
>

[Steve Elliott]

Thanks Doug - I'm on the case.

Steve.

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" > wrote in message
...
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q305595
> HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP
>
> You would need to create a BOOT.INI file, just as the one in your existing
> system, that has then entries for both OS's.
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
> --------------------------------
> Associate Expert
> ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> --------------------------------
> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
>
> "Steve Elliott" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Can someone point me in the right direction ?
> >
> > Here's the situation: I have two hard drives with two versions of Win
XP
> > Home installed. How do I create a floppy boot disk that will give me
the
> > option to boot from a different drive. Main Win XP resides on a
partition
> > of C, whilst the other version is Drive L.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Steve.
> >
> >
>
>

[Steve Elliott]

> You would need to create a BOOT.INI file, just as the one in your existing
> system, that has then entries for both OS's.

How would you insert the line entries in the boot.ini file that would offer
a choice of either operating system ? The MS site doesn't explain in much
detail ?

Thanks for your help,

Steve.

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

The entries in BOOT.INI point to the physical disk, then the partition.

This line points to the first partition on the first physical hard disk.
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect


This points to the first partition on the second physical hard disk
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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"Steve Elliott" > wrote in message
...
> > You would need to create a BOOT.INI file, just as the one in your
existing
> > system, that has then entries for both OS's.
>
> How would you insert the line entries in the boot.ini file that would
offer
> a choice of either operating system ? The MS site doesn't explain in much
> detail ?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Steve.
>
>