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Dual boot XP and 2k3 - Overwite MBR
Name: oyster Date: December 30, 2003 at 00:51:09 Pacific OS: Win Xp CPU/Ram: 512Mb
Comment:
Hi everyone, I had the dual boot of win xp and win server 2003 without any problems. But when i re-installed win xp in the partition C, it overwrote the MBR so i can only boot with win xp but not win server 2k3. I edited the file boot.ini, so now it is like: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise" /fastdetect
At the boot screen, i can choose 2 options to boot as normal. It works fine with win xp, but if i choose win server 2003, it will restart my computer. So i can not boot in win 2k3. Please suggest me any ideas to fix this. Thanks a lot.
Name: Sandman Date: December 30, 2003 at 04:01:29 Pacific
Reply:
Boot the WinS2k3 disk and go into the recovery console. Once there type in "fixmbr" followed by "fixboot". Restart and both options should work.
Sandman
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Response Number 2
Name: oyster Date: December 30, 2003 at 05:22:34 Pacific
Reply:
Instead of doing as you said, I repaired my windows server 2003. Although it took me much longer time, it works. Anyway, thanks for ur suggestion, Sandman.
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