OT Disaster please help

Win Me system...added XP for a dual boot pc. Tried to start Win Me tonight....wouldnt get to desktop,not alot on it so decided to reinstall. Went fine....until reboot when to my shock no dual boot choice...just straight to Win Me desktop.!! So on my 3rd partition installed Win XP so as not to risk all my stuff on the 2nd partition,the original Win XP installation. Went great...rebooted at end. SAME...!! Now it is a bare Win XP pc,no dual boot with Win Me as i expected...!! So atm i have 3 partitions...C drive is new XP,D drive is Old Xp,E drive is Win Me. How do i get dual boot back...? Please any information would help.. AD.

You have to reformat, install WinME (C), then install XP on other partition (D). "Aidee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ate26h$o1i$[email hidden]...

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> Win Me system...added XP for a dual boot pc. > > Tried to start Win Me tonight....wouldnt get to desktop,not alot on it so > decided to reinstall. > > Went fine....until reboot when to my shock no dual boot choice...just > straight to Win Me desktop.!! > > So on my 3rd partition installed Win XP so as not to risk all my stuff on > the 2nd partition,the original Win XP installation. > > Went great...rebooted at end. > > SAME...!! Now it is a bare Win XP pc,no dual boot with Win Me as i > expected...!! > > So atm i have 3 partitions...C drive is new XP,D drive is Old Xp,E drive

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> Win Me. > > How do i get dual boot back...? > > Please any information would help.. > > AD. > >

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:40:36 -0000, "Aidee" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Win Me system...added XP for a dual boot pc. > >Tried to start Win Me tonight....wouldnt get to desktop,not alot on it so >decided to reinstall. > >Went fine....until reboot when to my shock no dual boot choice...just >straight to Win Me desktop.!!

When you installed WinME again, it over wrote the MBR (master boot record). You have to reset it. If I remember correctly, boot the WinXP CD goto the Recovery Console. From there to repair the XP Bootloader run either fixboot or fixMBR. -- karkrazy AT softhome DOT net http://karkrazy.m4driving.sm

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:40:36 -0000, "Aidee" <[email hidden]> wrote: >How do i get dual boot back...? > >Please any information would help.. > >AD. Here some other thing you can try. I'd go with this one first: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_install.htm -- karkrazy AT softhome DOT net http://karkrazy.m4driving.sm

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>Win Me system...added XP for a dual boot pc. > >Tried to start Win Me tonight....wouldnt get to desktop,not alot on it so >decided to reinstall. > >Went fine....until reboot when to my shock no dual boot choice...just >straight to Win Me desktop.!! > >So on my 3rd partition installed Win XP so as not to risk all my stuff on >the 2nd partition,the original Win XP installation. > >Went great...rebooted at end. > >SAME...!! Now it is a bare Win XP pc,no dual boot with Win Me as i >expected...!! > >So atm i have 3 partitions...C drive is new XP,D drive is Old Xp,E drive is >Win Me. > >How do i get dual boot back...? > >Please any information would help.. >

As far as I am aware, it is the file boot.ini, in the root directory, that allows you to dual boot, and I guess yours has become corrupted. I used to have a win98 XP dual boot and this file got altered with no dual boot as a consequence until I edited it back to the way it was supposed to be. Here is a winME/XP dual boot, boot.ini that I found on google groups. Try putting it in your XP root directory. [boot loader] timeout=10 default=C:\ [operating systems] C:\="Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect -- Peter Ives Remove ALL_STRESS only before sending me an email

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> In article <ate26h$o1i$[email hidden]>, Aidee > <[email hidden]> writes > >Win Me system...added XP for a dual boot pc. > > > >Tried to start Win Me tonight....wouldnt get to desktop,not alot on it so > >decided to reinstall. > > > >Went fine....until reboot when to my shock no dual boot choice...just > >straight to Win Me desktop.!! > > > >So on my 3rd partition installed Win XP so as not to risk all my stuff on > >the 2nd partition,the original Win XP installation. > > > >Went great...rebooted at end. > > > >SAME...!! Now it is a bare Win XP pc,no dual boot with Win Me as i > >expected...!! > > > >So atm i have 3 partitions...C drive is new XP,D drive is Old Xp,E drive

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> >Win Me. > > > >How do i get dual boot back...? > > > >Please any information would help.. > > > As far as I am aware, it is the file boot.ini, in the root directory, > that allows you to dual boot, and I guess yours has become corrupted. I > used to have a win98 XP dual boot and this file got altered with no dual > boot as a consequence until I edited it back to the way it was supposed > to be. > > Here is a winME/XP dual boot, boot.ini that I found on google groups. > Try putting it in your XP root directory. > > [boot loader] > timeout=10 > default=C:\ > [operating systems] > C:\="Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition" > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP > Professional" /fastdetect > -- > Peter Ives > Remove ALL_STRESS only before sending me an email

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>Peter..................................................... > > >............................................................................ >..... > > > >............................................................................ >..... > > > >you......................................................................... >.. > > > > >............................................................................ >........ > > > > >BEAUTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY >YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY >YYYYYYY......:)))) > > >Many many thankssssssssssssssssss....:) >

Aww, shucks! Pleased to have helped. :) -- Peter Ives (AKA Pete Ivington) Remove ALL_STRESS before replying via email If you know what's good for you, don't listen to me GPLRank Joystick -50.63 Wheel -21.77