Iam having dual booting system with millennium installed in c:drive and windows xp proffesional installed in D

Question

am having dual booting system with millennium installed in c:drive and windows xp proffesional installed in D:drive.
I want to format c drive and install millennium again so that i do not want to reinstall windows xp proffesional what should
be done to correct the boot loader so as when I boot up my PC,it will prompt me whether I want to go for millennium or XP.
I don`t want reinstall windows XP.

Answer 1

what u do is

1. just go to root of C:\ drive and find the file BOOT.INI then copy it to some other location i mean like in other drive so that after re-installing your ME u can recover it

2. Format and install ME on your C:\ drive

3. Go to the location where u save the boot.ini file and copy it again to its original place i mean from where u picked it up so then go to run... in start menu and run this command
"msconfig.exe" or simply "msconfig" then when it comes then in first ever tab select the latter option i mean the 3rd option that is to boot from the file boot.ini then go to the boot.ini tab and check if it shows both partition and both OS if no then go to the place of boot.ini open it up in notepad compy its contents and paste it in the place of boot.ini in the msconfig dialog then save everything and boot again i hope it will make your day


and i tell u never listen to the guys who says that u should install both Os in same drive or formatting a drive wont let u run the other OS or something like that. if someone says like that then they just havent done anything and they just do what they have seen others doin and havent ever done anything by their own.

so if u want to learn anything and go ahead and experiment with your own computer if u worried about your comptre then certainly there are public computers and cafes and computers at offices too........

:D

;)

so go ahead.........happy R & D

Answer 2

When you install to different os on the same system, they have to be on the same hard drive in order for the system to give you the prompt to choose which os to boot. If they are on seperate hard drives, the system will just simply go for the os that is on the Primary/Master hard drive. The secondary hard drive will just be seen as a 2nd/spare hard drive to the bios and will just continue to boot from the 1st hard drive. I belive that there is some 3rd party software out there that can interact with your bios to give you that option.

But to answer your question, I would normally just unplug the drive that you dont want to accidently format, untill you get windows installed on the other drive.

Answer 3

Formatting c: and reinstalling ME will erase the dual boot info in the MBR. You will no longer have the choice to use XP, even though d:\windows is still there.
Just partition and reformat c: and install ME - XP will disappear.

Answer 4

Boot using the XP CD after you have ME reinstalled, but go to the recovery console, and do a "fix mbr", that should reinstall the XP bootloader.

Answer 5

in case you got the workstation with vista on it then no it is no longer a tribulation, this is yours to maintain for that computer. with the intention to get living house windows xp onto the workstation, you should first have an living house windows xp CD, no longer isn't an o.e.m CD (one that got here with yet another computer). you will have one which you got for the shop and has no longer been activated on yet another computer. Then on the recent computer, you should format it, dropping all documents, then you certainly could have the skill to place in XP.

Answer 6

you can try repairing (start to install and in the options set to repair)you windows millenium instead of reinstalling it after you fomat your c:
i don't think that you can work with your xp after you format c: