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Respected Gurus and dear friends,
I always have used one HARD DISK with two partitions....running windows xp
Now i have also added one extra harddisk with again two partitions using windows server 2000...
Now problem is that currently what i do is depending on which one i want to use; i change BIOS settings at time of machine start by kepping press DEL so that it takes me to BIOS settings and there i choose one out of two hard disks...by modifying boot priority settings...
I was wondering is it possible to have (say) a screen which gives me option to choose any one from BOTH hard disk instead of changing BIOS settings everytime i start my machine....
Any idea / suggestion/ solution/ guide would be more than appreciated....
Thanks
Sunando
sunandoghosh at rediffmail dot com
Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery.
When you are in there at the top you will see an OS list which in your case will have 1 item listed.
Click on the edit button and a text editor will open.
As an example you will have.
[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" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
You will need to add another line to this with the information contained within it.
If I had 2k Server installed on a secondary hard drive I would write it like this...
[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" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2003 Server" /fastdetect
Be carful changing this as it can mess your PC up if you do it wrong, you can of course fix it by holding F8 down after the bios screen appears and selecting Last Known Best Configuration (If you break it).
Matt
