Dual Boot Query....

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ECE0105

In the zone
I have two different HDDs with different Partitions.

HDD1 = 250GB with 3 partitions and has Windows 2003 Server installed
HDD2 = 200GB with 4 partitions and has Windows XP Pro installed.

I had initially connected only the HDD2 and installed XP and then since I had to give that to a frnd, since he wanted some (huge) data, I proceeded with installing 2003 on the HDD1.
I am now able to boot into 2003, but unable to boot into XP. I have tried configuring the boot.ini, since I had also checked the one in XP, but it does not work.
I see that going into the Recovery console and running the bootcfg/rebuild should work, but will it? And, is there any other way of getting XP back in the list (3rd party tools etc.).
boot.ini for 03 : multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect


boot.ini for Windows XP :

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect

I tried using different partition numbers and made the disk as 1 and tried but no go.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 

Gigacore

Dreamweaver
^ ya, do that in recovery console.

see my tutor "Using Recovery Console" in tutorial section. It gives you a good idea
 
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