Hi all, I have a PC currently with 3 OS on it (Vista,XP,2000). I created a new partition yesterday and installed Server 2003 on it from boot. Installation went fine, and I got access to the 2003 GUI. But here's my problem... I can't get Server to appear in my boot menu on startup, and hence cant access it. Now I googled it, and I've found out that there's a line of code missing from my boot.ini file: [boot loader] timeout=90 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /FASTDETECT C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons Vista's boot menu comes up first, thru bcdedit.exe... I went to Microsoft website, and found an article regarding this (http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;323427), and they give me the following line of code to insert for Server 2003 startup option: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows .NET Standard Server" /fastdetect However when I boot up again, it's telling me this OS is unavailable, and asking me to re-install some .dll installation file. I would just do a clean install, but I dont have access to the disk for Server 2003, and I really need to get it going. If anyone has ever come across this problem, or knows a solution, i would be most grateful. Cheers, Joe Bosey

You used the wrong partition number. That (1) refers to your 2000 installation. partition(1) is 2000 partition(2) is XP Don't know what partition vista is on. If you have 4 partitions and 2003 is on the 4th partition you need to change the (1) to a (4) Imagine the power of knowing how to internet search http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Teachin...

Ok, thank u for that, except are the partitions not numbered 0-3, with 3 being the 4th partition..? Bosey

No. You must be thinking "ordinal for the disk on the adapter and is usually a number between 0 and 3. " The partition numbers always start at 1. You can only have 4 primary partitions on a disk. You can review this: http://support.microsoft.com/defaul... Imagine the power of knowing how to internet search http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Teachin...