restore boot selection screen??

[karthik55859]

Hi guys
I installed 2 OS
In C windows XP Professional and
In D windows XP Home edition
has i had problem with Xp pro in c
i reformated and reinstalled the XP pro in C
but now it boots to new XP and doesnt show boot selection screen
how can i make boot selection screen and boot to windows XP home

note that i only formated C and no other drives are affected

 

[vijay_7287]

u lost the old MBR
just give the necessary path in the boot.ini file

and boot frm the XP home CD and give fixmbr in the repair menu

 

[AnilShenoy]

not fixmbr, you have to use *bootcfg*.

type: bootcfg /? for more info

 

[Vishal Gupta]

Boot using XP setup disc and in Recovery console give following commands:

fixboot
bootcfg /rebuild

 

[hermit]

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro$oft *** professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

this is how boot.ini looks like this mine

copy this on to note pad make changes according to os and partions and save it on notepad as "boot.ini" (without " ")

thi will solve u r problem.