Lost boot menu and half the hard drive

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I've got a laptop set up for dual boot, Windows 2k and XP. Hard drive is
split down the middle into two partitions.

First I installed 2000 then I installed XP. Everything worked great until XP
decided it didn't want to install updates, any updates, no longer. I had
updated XP then installed Visual Studio and Office and suspect one of those
too overwrote an update because it was trying to get the patches for those
that my troubles began.

Well, I was in a hurry and since I had just wiped the hard drive, i just
reinstalled windows.

I installed XP, Visual Studio and Office and updates installed correctly. I
was happy, if not a little behind on my work.

At least happy until I noticed that I no longer had the boot menu.

The 2k parition is still there, but the boot menu is gone.

Is it possible to create a new boot menu so I don't have to reinstall both
OS from scratch?
 
Ron,

That's exactly what I was looking for but didn't have the right lingo to find.

Thanks so much!
 
discosammy said:
I've got a laptop set up for dual boot, Windows 2k and XP. Hard drive is
split down the middle into two partitions.

First I installed 2000 then I installed XP. Everything worked great until
XP
decided it didn't want to install updates, any updates, no longer. I had
updated XP then installed Visual Studio and Office and suspect one of
those
too overwrote an update because it was trying to get the patches for those
that my troubles began.

Well, I was in a hurry and since I had just wiped the hard drive, i just
reinstalled windows.

I installed XP, Visual Studio and Office and updates installed correctly.
I
was happy, if not a little behind on my work.

At least happy until I noticed that I no longer had the boot menu.

The 2k parition is still there, but the boot menu is gone.

Is it possible to create a new boot menu so I don't have to reinstall both
OS from scratch?
Click to expand...

Here is an alternative:
- Click Start / notepad c:\boot.ini{OK}
- Add a line that looks like so:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(x)\WinNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
- Save and close the file.

x must be a value greater than 0. It cannot be the same
value as it is on the WinXP line that is already there. If
unsure, add several lines, then try them one after the other.
 
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