I have 3 hard disks with 3 OS's in it, and i want to make dual boot. 1. IDE 1 Master Partition 1- Windows 2000 Pro 2. IDE 1 Slave Partition 1 - Windows ME 3. IDE 2 Slave Partition 1 - Whistler Can anybody please tell me how to config the boot.ini file in Win2k ? or is it possible? Thanks!

You have to be clever don't you !! Right, locate the boot.ini file first and open it. (on the root drive of your Primary Master) If you run from your primary OS (win2k) it should look like this (or similar) [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect To understand how the file works, I'll explain the switches. Multi(x)or scsi(x) - The adapter/disk controller. Use scsi(x) to indicate a SCSI controller on which SCSI BIOS is NOT enabled. For ALL other controllers, use multi, including SCSI controllers with the BIOS installed. disk(y) - The SCSI ID. For multi this value is ALWAYS 0 rdisk(z) - A number that identifies the disk. This is not used for SCSI controlllers partition(a) - An number that identifies the partition i.e. 1=1st, 2=2nd etc Now you have to add extra lines to map the extra operating systems. How you do this will depend on what disks you have and on what controller, i.e. IDE, RAID or SCSI. I will assume that you three IDE drives and no SCSI or RAID controllers, with Win2K on the Primary Master, WinME on the Primary Slave and WinXP on the Secondary Master with your optical drive on the secondary slave. You will therefore need two more entries to describe where you extra two OS's are (ME and XP). These would read as :- multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows ME" and multi(1)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows XP" If you have the drives on a different IDE controllers tahan above, then adjust the above accordingly. If however you have any SCSI drives then ensure that you change disk and not rdisk. Also make sure you know how your computer has numbered each adapter. A mobo with a built in RAID or SCSI controller will number them differently than one with just the IDE controllers and the RAID and/or SCSI as bootable add-in cards. I have a mobo with onboard RAID and two add-in SCSI cards. For this reason, I use partition magic and not a modified boot.ini to have multiple OS's. It is 10 times easier and 1/10th the grief. Good luck Nathan.

The problem you have will not be resolved just from editing the Boot.ini file, although this could be required All these Operating Systems require boot files to exist on the SYSTEM PARITION (Boot partition) which will be your C:\ primary You can obvioulsy install all other Operating files onto another partition Your description of your drives if Im reading right is 2 on the 1st channel and 1 on the second I suggest (although it invloves a clean install) would be to: Create 3 primiary partitions on DISK 1 (Channel 1 - Primary) Use a boot loader such as Parition Magic's to help you out Install a OS onto each (If disk space is limited on disk 1 suggest specifying another of the drives for the OS install path) but you should allocate 2 gigs for each OS - So if you have a disk >6gb use that as your Channel 1 primary You'll then have the other 2 disks free This will then enable on boot up, 3 choices of OS with all required system files available within the system (Boot) partition Easy ! Tim