[newreel]

hello,

i am working on a computer that is having trouble booting to the partition that contains windows.

somehow windows got moved from the c drive partition over to a different one. i am only able to get to windows via the recovery module (but i CAN get to it and it looks fine).

is there anyone who could please tell me how to modify the bios in such a way that it directs the system to boot into the partition that contains windows?

thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

 

[Jack.Sparrow]

Windows -> Run -> type in msconfig
Have a look under BOOT.INI . If XP is listed there, click it, then click set as default.

Hopefully this works.

 

[newreel]

okay, i opened msconfig / boot.ini

i don't see the word XP anywhere on the screen, or an option to save anything as default.

what i DO see, is:

[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="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdet

 

[Jack.Sparrow]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdet

According to that, XP is the default. I'm stumped as to why it's not booting it then.

Hang around, someone will come along and help you out soon enough.

 

[Deleted090308]

Hi,
What drive/partition is Windows installed on? According to boot.ini it's on the first drive's second partition (most likely D.