Ok here's the deal. I have two hard drives in my system. One connected via IDE and the other Sata. The IDE has windows pro and the sata as windows pro x64. I wanna know how I can st it up so that I can choose which one to boot into. I know we got some tech savy guys on here so any help would be apprciated.
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The old fashion way to do this was to manually change your boot.ini file on the original C: drive to have an extra entry for the second disk and you would select the one you wanted at boot time. I could give you instructions for that but I'd have carpal after I was done. The easiest way to do this is to go to recovery console and use the bootcfg command.
To use the bootcfg command, start the Recovery Console with the Windows XP CD-ROM, and then choose Recovery Console.
The bootcfg /add command scans the computer for operating systems and then displays the results. From this location, you can add an installation to the Boot menu.
You may receive a message that is similar to the following message:
Scanning all disks for Windows Installations
Please wait, since this may take a while...
Total Identified Windows Installs: 2
[1] C:\Windows
[2] D:\Windows
Select installation to add: (select a number)
Enter Load Identifier: (You can put any unique identifier you want here)
Enter Operating System Load Options: (leave it empty for now and ask me about this later)
This process adds a new entry in the Boot menu. When you add an installation, the bootcfg command also makes the installation the default operating system boot entry. You can change the default by editing the boot.ini file.
BET YOU WISH YOU HADN'T ASKED HUH!!!!!
To use the bootcfg command, start the Recovery Console with the Windows XP CD-ROM, and then choose Recovery Console.
The bootcfg /add command scans the computer for operating systems and then displays the results. From this location, you can add an installation to the Boot menu.
You may receive a message that is similar to the following message:
Scanning all disks for Windows Installations
Please wait, since this may take a while...
Total Identified Windows Installs: 2
[1] C:\Windows
[2] D:\Windows
Select installation to add: (select a number)
Enter Load Identifier: (You can put any unique identifier you want here)
Enter Operating System Load Options: (leave it empty for now and ask me about this later)
This process adds a new entry in the Boot menu. When you add an installation, the bootcfg command also makes the installation the default operating system boot entry. You can change the default by editing the boot.ini file.
BET YOU WISH YOU HADN'T ASKED HUH!!!!!
I just remembered something that will probably cause problems for you. The one thing that usually stops dual boot from working correctly is the file NTLDR. There should be one of these on both of the disks because you installed windows once on each disk. Right now your boot.ini will use the ntldr from your XP pro install but that loader might not have the ability to load 64 bit XP. What you can do to take care of that is to rename the file C:\ntldr to C:\oldntldr and then copy the D:\ntldr from the 64-bit over to your c: root. It should be backward compatible whereas the XP pro ntldr is not upward compatible. That should do it.
go into your system bios, and select your boot order with reference to what hard drive you want to boot. I prefer that method instead of bootloaders, you can also disable the ide channel of your other drive so as not to cause any changes to your other OS. It depends on what you want to do.
I am still semi guessing at what you were talking about with recovery. Did you hose something or were you installing a new OS on a new HD?
I am still semi guessing at what you were talking about with recovery. Did you hose something or were you installing a new OS on a new HD?
My old operating system is on the IDE drive(Windows Pro). I recently installed Windows Pro 64 on a sata drive. As of now I can only boot up with the sata drive.
Also in the system recovery control panel it doesn't give me the choice to choose any other OS.
And puppet I tried to boot up from the cd-rom in to recovery but it said I needed a recovery floppy disk. I'll have to get a new floppy disc to format later I guess.
Also in the system recovery control panel it doesn't give me the choice to choose any other OS.
And puppet I tried to boot up from the cd-rom in to recovery but it said I needed a recovery floppy disk. I'll have to get a new floppy disc to format later I guess.
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Yeah, While booted in x64 the other HD is seen as a slave drive that I can access.
As for the floppy disc. When I inserted my Windows pro x64 cd-rom and restart and chose recovery console it told me to insert a floppy disc. I will try the other method that you linked to puppet.
Thanks again.
So is any of this solved as of yet? I am interested on how it turned out.
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