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Hi Jaan,
You have to enter into BIOS and check the boot partitions that is set during the system boot process.
It must have set the D as default partition to boot. That needs to be changed to C.
Regards
Riztech
Posted on Jun 06, 2010
Hi,
Also please paste the boot.ini content here
Steps to access boot.ini file
Regards
Riztech
Thanks for replying.
I tried changing the BIOS order but that doesn't help. There is only one harddrive listed on the BIOS and no partition choices.
My boot.ini looks like this:
[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" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP New" /fastdetect
I always end up having to use the "New" one to get into the computer at all but it puts me in D. I should also mention that when I boot using the cd and get the recovery console, it shows me three installations of windows (1) c:windows (2) c: minint (3) d:windows.
Any ideas?
Try modifying the boot.ini file as below (excluding the seconday boot option)
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
Putting in exactly what you wrote (including "parition 1") sends me directly into the partial windows installation on the D: partition.
Also I should note that D shows up as the (system) partition when I look at disk management.
In past, did you try the FIXMBR and FIXBOOT using recovery partition or windows CD? if you have windows CD; boot the computer on disc and please run these two commands.
I did try both of those before using a windows CD. The problem is that when I boot from the CD into the recovery console the screen brings up three seperate installations of windows.
1: C:\WINDOWS (the one i think is the correct one)
2: C:\MiniNT (no idea where this came from)
3: D:\WINDOWS (the one it keeps booting into now)
I tried this in recovery console:
FIXMBR C:
FIXBOOT C:
COPY F:\I386\NTLDR C:\ (here F: refers to your cd rom)
COPY F:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
BOOTCFG /rebuild
But when I actually boot I end up in D: instead of C even though thats where I wrote everthing to...
I just typed in bootcfg /list and the response I got was that the os location is d:/windows. How do I change that?
At the command prompt, type:
bootcfg /default /ID#Where # specifies the boot entry id in the operating systems section of the BOOT.INI file to be made the default operating system.
I see what you are saying, the problem is that in my bootcfg list there is only one operating system listed and it says its located on the D: partition. Should I just wipe the partitions and start over?
Before we format; You can try changing the drive letter of the partition D using Disk Management to a different drive letter and check if it takes C on boot.
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