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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 :refuck:).

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

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

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

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

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



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.

This post was edited on 12-10-2004 at 06:37 PM by .blade//.
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