Inability to create an effective dual boot
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Re: Inability to create an effective dual boot
by NT50 » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:27 am
skandal999 wrote:Yes it is. But I put ntldr and ntdetect.com at the D: root. Am I understanding you want them at the root of c: as well?
That is correct. Your System drive is C:\ according to your image.
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Re: Inability to create an effective dual boot
by NT50 » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:54 am
Now use DualBootPro get get yoru dualboot working
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Re: Inability to create an effective dual boot
by skandal999 » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:13 am
Finally. Seems to be working. Thank you very much for your patience and help.
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Re: Inability to create an effective dual boot
by stresa126 » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:38 am
Just caught up with this thread. A contributing factor to the initial problem may be that XP SP3 appears to move ntldr and ntdetect to a different folder, namely \Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386 and removes boot.ini altogether. I copied ntldr and ntdetect back to the XP root directory only to be told they were already present despite their not showing up in Explorer (and, yes, 'Show hidden files and folders is turned on) - how do we explain that? I can't find a boot.ini file on my system, only a backup file in \Windows\pss.
Re: Inability to create an effective dual boot
by NT50 » Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:49 pm
Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" also and you will see them.
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Re: Inability to create an effective dual boot
by stresa126 » Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:35 pm
Quite so! Thanks for the tip.
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