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What is the meaning of the various Boot.ini parameters?

I have a dual boot system with Windows 98 and Windows 2000 Pro.
Win 2000 was on drive "D" which was a slave on the secondary channel.
I want to add a third drive which requires me to move my existing D drive and make it a slave on the primary channel.
When I make it a primary slave I get a blue screen error that it cannot find certain files.
This is the present boot.ini entry:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

1 What is the meaning of each of the parameters and what are the acceptable values. eg can partition be (0)?

2 Is there anything else that controls the boot process?

3 Can you suggest how the entry should be modified?

Thanks

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stevenlewis

Can't add anything here

SysExpert

To change the boot, remove the system, hidden, readonly attributes on the
boot.ini file
edit it, and duplicate the entries as shown below.

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro 1" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Prof 0" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Prof 2" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Prof 3" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

also try the same using disk (1) rather than 0.

This will give you all the options, and you will have them available for whatever changes you make.

You can use the comments to describe each boot option.

Then see which one works for you.

I hope this helps !

topman

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Much Thamks

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Glad I could help!