Upon booting my xp gives me a brief message that the boot.ini is invalid then continues to boot. I have recently switched my boot drive and I had to manually copy boot files from a bootdisk. Now I know if it ain't broke don't fix may apply, but I was searching through my extra storage drive and I have found that some of my boot files were copied to it instead. It might have been my fault, but here's my question, copying the files over to my boot disk won't harm my boot in anyway even though the path to the files have changed?? Because everything in msconfig seems to be in order..I guess my real question is, are there any other files i would need to modify that specify the path of the boot files? I didn't think it was possible to have boot files on 2 drives so, thanks for any input.

yes, boot.ini may need something done to it. I know nothing about boot.ini, all I know is you have all the information of existing OSes (not exactly all, you know what I mean). it maybe the representation of hard drives or partitions are causing problem. To edit it, don't do it yourself. try to get some software to do it for you. I've not got a clue what you could use. do a search in the Linux forum, you'll find something useful.

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If it is only the boot.ini it is quit easy you can write it yourself and/or change it the form is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk()partition()\windows="some name" you can add /fastdetect disk refer to evt.scsi put 0 in. rdisk is yr HD (0 if it is no. 1") partition will normally be 0 as well (i.e. meaning the 1. partition) good luck