make partition bootable again

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a little complicated here, for me anyway
had disk with a c partition that was a redhat linux
a d partition for data
an e partition with win2k pro, bootable
and an f partition with win2k adv server, bootable
by using partition magic and fdisk, formatted the c partition back to
primary dos
and installed win2kpro, that works ok
but now it only boots to c, and i would like to make the f partition with
the win2k adv server
bootable again, so i have a choice, is it possible?
with partition magic? or some other means?

 

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I'm not certain, but you might need only to edit your boot.ini file. W2k
installs sometimes provide a boot.ini with only one target system.

The boot.ini file should be on your C:, in the root directory; you'll
have to remove the Hidden and Readonly and System attributes (attrib
command) and perhaps also set explorer to display ALL files.

It is a very small text file (edit with notepad), and its syntax and
examples are easily found in W2k Start/Help (I believe) and at many
websites, including microsoft.com.

If you format a diskette and copy to it these 3 files (assuming you're
not booting via SCSI):
ntldr
ntdetect.com
boot.ini (as it exists now),
then booting from that diskette should do EXACTLY what booting your
system does right now. Having done that, you can edit the diskette's
boot.ini file to your heart's content, until you get it right...while
not modifying the file on the hard drive in any way until them. This
will protect you from catastrophic errors.

bbxrider wrote:

> a little complicated here, for me anyway
> had disk with a c partition that was a redhat linux
> a d partition for data
> an e partition with win2k pro, bootable
> and an f partition with win2k adv server, bootable
> by using partition magic and fdisk, formatted the c partition back to
> primary dos
> and installed win2kpro, that works ok
> but now it only boots to c, and i would like to make the f partition with
> the win2k adv server
> bootable again, so i have a choice, is it possible?
> with partition magic? or some other means?
>
>

 

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thanks dan, i will attempt that, like the idea about being able test from
diskette

"Dan Seur" <click@casta.net> wrote in message
news:eXSyZqzHEHA.2720@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I'm not certain, but you might need only to edit your boot.ini file. W2k
> installs sometimes provide a boot.ini with only one target system.
>
> The boot.ini file should be on your C:, in the root directory; you'll
> have to remove the Hidden and Readonly and System attributes (attrib
> command) and perhaps also set explorer to display ALL files.
>
> It is a very small text file (edit with notepad), and its syntax and
> examples are easily found in W2k Start/Help (I believe) and at many
> websites, including microsoft.com.
>
> If you format a diskette and copy to it these 3 files (assuming you're
> not booting via SCSI):
> ntldr
> ntdetect.com
> boot.ini (as it exists now),
> then booting from that diskette should do EXACTLY what booting your
> system does right now. Having done that, you can edit the diskette's
> boot.ini file to your heart's content, until you get it right...while
> not modifying the file on the hard drive in any way until them. This
> will protect you from catastrophic errors.
>
> bbxrider wrote:
>
> > a little complicated here, for me anyway
> > had disk with a c partition that was a redhat linux
> > a d partition for data
> > an e partition with win2k pro, bootable
> > and an f partition with win2k adv server, bootable
> > by using partition magic and fdisk, formatted the c partition back to
> > primary dos
> > and installed win2kpro, that works ok
> > but now it only boots to c, and i would like to make the f partition
with
> > the win2k adv server
> > bootable again, so i have a choice, is it possible?
> > with partition magic? or some other means?
> >
> >
>