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I was cleaning up my system (I had 2 OS's registered that no longer existed) and I somehome fuxored up my boot.ini. It only wants to boot the OS on my primary HDD (C:\), which is a no-longer properly working copy of Longhorn 4074 (I can boot in safe mode but I can basically only use task manager and the run command to launch some programs).

I need it to boot my primary OS which is located on the D:\ drive (Windows XP)


Longhorn 4074 is located on C:\ (which is not partitioned with any other OS's)
Windows XP is located on D:\ (which is not partitioned with any other OS's)


Help me!!!!!!


Edit: Nevermind guys, I managed to fix it after 2 hours of TRYING to do something on Longhorn 4074 (which I also fixed ).

A 1 where a 0 should have been was fucking up my boot.ini

Lol.... Well good to hear that you already fixed it

For people in the future if you boot off of your Windows XP installation CD you will have an option for R for Repair. If you press R you will be taken to DOS (so to speak.)

It asks what Windows Installation you want to log into. Press the button Corresponding to C:\Windows

type your admin password

then at the prompt you should be able to type fixboot and it should repair the boot.ini for all windows installs.

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Originally posted by Matty
For people in the future if you boot off of your Windows XP installation CD you will have an option for R for Repair. If you press R you will be taken to DOS (so to speak.)

It asks what Windows Installation you want to log into. Press the button Corresponding to C:\Windows

type your admin password

then at the prompt you should be able to type fixboot and it should repair the boot.ini for all windows installs.

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I did that several times. I did fixboot and fixmbr.

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Originally posted by blade

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Originally posted by Matty
For people in the future if you boot off of your Windows XP installation CD you will have an option for R for Repair. If you press R you will be taken to DOS (so to speak.)

It asks what Windows Installation you want to log into. Press the button Corresponding to C:\Windows

type your admin password

then at the prompt you should be able to type fixboot and it should repair the boot.ini for all windows installs.

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I did that several times. I did fixboot and fixmbr.

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If that didn't work then in safe mode start > run > msconfig > boot.ini tab > check all boot paths.

it will return a good or bad and it should fix the bad.

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Originally posted by Matty

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Originally posted by blade

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Originally posted by Matty
For people in the future if you boot off of your Windows XP installation CD you will have an option for R for Repair. If you press R you will be taken to DOS (so to speak.)

It asks what Windows Installation you want to log into. Press the button Corresponding to C:\Windows

type your admin password

then at the prompt you should be able to type fixboot and it should repair the boot.ini for all windows installs.

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I did that several times. I did fixboot and fixmbr.

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If that didn't work then in safe mode start > run > msconfig > boot.ini tab > check all boot paths.

it will return a good or bad and it should fix the bad.

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but you see, that's what happened. I did that in the first place and it deleted XP, leaving only Longhorn

And I couldn't even get into safe mode for XP, I could only get to Longhorn.