Hi all, Will someone please explain the "simple looking", but seamingly "difficult" boot.ini !!! please ! I have two hard disks - one windows 2000 server and one windows xp pro. > The Win 2k server is on Primary channel, master device. > The Windows XP Pro is on Primary Channel also, slave device. I thought this would be adequate... [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Server" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Please explain the individual configuration sectors - i.e. multi, rdisk etc etc and I would appreciate it if someone could write me the correct boot.ini for my set-up. Thanks a million, Steve

scsi(n) or multi(n) This portion of the path indicates the type of the device on which the operating system resides. In your case (multi), this indicates an IDE or EIDE hard drive. disk(n) This portion indicates which SCSI bus number should be used. In your case (where the first potion is multi), this value will always be zero. rdisk(n) This portion indicates the SCSI LUN number or selects which of the hard drives attached to the adapter contains the operating system. This value always equals zero when the adapter is SCSI, otherwise it is numbered ordinally. partition(n) This portion selects the disk partition that contains the operating system files. Hope this helps.

Could you please just write my boot ini out - just the multi.... paths, ill do the rest. Its just that I have tried writing it approrpriately, and it does not work ! The disk starts spinning (after selecting the boot selection) and tries to boot, then says system files are missing etc...

Try this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Server" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Just to clarify things for you, rdisk is numbered orinally (numbered from zero) and partition is numbered cardinally (numbered from one). Hope this clears things up for you.

You're very welcome Steve.