Guest shyPotter Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Hi I have windows XP pro on my current system "c:/windows" SATA DRIVE 250GB I have installed another "D:/" SATA drive and copied windows 2003 server image. Bios have boot option "SATA Drive" only no option of disk selection along with other floppy/cd options. Problem is I cannot use dual boot. If I disbale first drive which have win xp then I can boot and run windows 2003 server if I enable first drive it goes to XP not giving me any option to boot through win 2003. I have tried to change boot.ini but no luck Can any one guide me how I can use as dual boot . What entries should I do to use boot ini. My Currrent boot.ini something like this. [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(1)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windo ws Server 2003, Enterprise" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect I have tried this soloution as well. Enable both drives. Insert Windows XP bootable cd into your CD Rom drive and boot from it. At the first prompt select second option "Press "R" to enter recovery console" You'll be asked for Administrator's password, if any. Select you Window Xp installation by enter number 1 or 2, when prompted. You are now on command line. Type following command Code: bootcfg /addYou'll be asked "Which windows installation do you want to add?" Select the installation, in your case Window server 2003, to add in the list. Reboot your system. Thanks in advance and Regards
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