Windows Booting to Wrong XP Partition

Nikolay said:

It worked, I was finally able to boot onto the right XP partition. Just one problem though, everytime I start up, I get a "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close" error. Right now I'm running sfc /scannow.

OK one problem down ...

At least you have your Windows bootmgr configured to suit you ...

Cheers!
Robert

How do I add an entry to the boot.ini file so that I can boot to the other XP partition that is on the seagate without switching boot priority of the hard drives?

Nikolay said:

How do I add an entry to the boot.ini file so that I can boot to the other XP partition that is on the seagate without switching boot priority of the hard drives?

Edit the boot.ini file again ... copy the current line ... paste in underneath ... change to partition(3)?

iseeuu said:

Nikolay said:

How do I add an entry to the boot.ini file so that I can boot to the other XP partition that is on the seagate without switching boot priority of the hard drives?

Edit the boot.ini file again ... copy the current line ... paste in underneath ... change to partition(3)?

Well, it's on disk 1.

Would it be:

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"

Nikolay said:

iseeuu said:

Nikolay said:

How do I add an entry to the boot.ini file so that I can boot to the other XP partition that is on the seagate without switching boot priority of the hard drives?

Edit the boot.ini file again ... copy the current line ... paste in underneath ... change to partition(3)?

Well, it's on disk 1.

Would it be:

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"

I would guess:

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional

You can view the files on that partition now right? Go the the C: (root) and open boot.ini and see the correct string. Copy and paste it?

Well that didn't work. I think I'm just going to start from scratch and remove my old hard drive and format my new one and partition that.

You've been a big help, solved my problem I was originally having. :)

Nikolay said:

Well that didn't work. I think I'm just going to start from scratch and remove my old hard drive and format my new one and partition that.

You've been a big help, solved my problem I was originally having. :)

I understand! You could try different strings?

If I might make a suggestion, when you are ready to install XP again, after you install 7, is to create the new XP partition ahead of time and mark it "Active" before you start the XP installation. I think it is easier that way ... but that is just IMHO ...

Be glad to help out if I can!

Cheers!
Robert

iseeuu said:

Nikolay said:

Well that didn't work. I think I'm just going to start from scratch and remove my old hard drive and format my new one and partition that.

You've been a big help, solved my problem I was originally having. :)

I understand! You could try different strings?

If I might make a suggestion, when you are ready to install XP again, after you install 7, is to create the new XP partition ahead of time and mark it "Active" before you start the XP installation. I think it is easier that way ... but that is just IMHO ...

Be glad to help out if I can!

Cheers!
Robert

I was thinking about installing XP first and then 7. You think I should do the same thing, but for 7?

Nikolay said:

iseeuu said:

Nikolay said:

Well that didn't work. I think I'm just going to start from scratch and remove my old hard drive and format my new one and partition that.

You've been a big help, solved my problem I was originally having. :)

I understand! You could try different strings?

If I might make a suggestion, when you are ready to install XP again, after you install 7, is to create the new XP partition ahead of time and mark it "Active" before you start the XP installation. I think it is easier that way ... but that is just IMHO ...

Be glad to help out if I can!

Cheers!
Robert

I was thinking about installing XP first and then 7. You think I should do the same thing, but for 7?

We all learn by doing!

In the end it is a matter of personal preference, what is easiest, what we are most comfortable with. My preference would be to install 7 first to a blank hard drive and add XP second. You could try it both ways and see what you like best?

disk(0) is always disk(0) unless you are using dynamic drives.

rdisk(0) partition (2) if you have the Win 7 drive primary with XP on the second partition.

rdisk (1) partition (1) for the second drive. For the XP on partition 1 on the second drive.