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by it rookie

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I ran setup from my win2000 cd in order to proform a repair of my os. Upon concluding this task and rebooting I saw that a win2000 setup line has been added to my os boot options. I remove this line and I was not able to boot into xp. I was able to boot into 2000 but not xp which is the second os on my system on the second partition. Why should the removal of that cd setup line from the boot.ini file affect me booting into xp?

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by maelgwyn

It is more the rebuilding of the Windows 2k boot.ini file has been overwritten, so that you cannot access that partition.

I would give you the command, but I STRONGLY suggest tthat you do not touch the file - a misplaced space can completely destroy the file! SO do the same as you did for 2k with XP - it should be more user friendly for the boot menu

by c.mcfadden

C&P from another site hopefully it's of some help.I also edited the boot.ini along time ago and ended up do a reinstall of the OS.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Win XP"

you know how to edit the boot.ini

by it rookie

I currently have that cd setup line in my boot.ini file how. How can I remove it without creating a world of problems?

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