[ale] Dual boot XP?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:46:29 -0400
Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> 
> I doubt XP liked being moved to a different # partition. You probably
> need to modify it's boot.ini file. It lives at the root of C: and has
> a format like
> 
> [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
> 

Heh, it gets worse if you have Vista.  The boot configuration data is
stored in a file named DRIVE:\Boot\BCD, and is a binary registry hive
that must be edited with some tool called BCDEdit.exe.

At least Vista's install DVD lets you boot and start a command prompt
to recover from such things, but it's a lot more complex than a simple
text file...

	--- Mike

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