rgodart 0 Posted August 17, 2001 I got a ata100 drive connected to a pci ata100 controller. this is my boot drive an all win2k boot files reside on it. I installed winMe on a ata33 drive on the IDE1 controller of my mobo. What lines do i have o add to make the boot menu see winMe??? My current boot.ini looks lijke this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect Share this post Link to post
bobbinbrisco 0 Posted August 17, 2001 just add this line to boot.ini: c:/="Microsoft Windows ME" This is because windows me and windows 9x always put their boot up files into your boot drive (c:\)- so just add the line above to boot into win me. win me should have added itself to the boot loader anyways... Share this post Link to post
rgodart 0 Posted August 17, 2001 That doesn't work. The computer just resets when i choose "Windows Me" in the boot menu. Here's how i installed everything: 1) DISK 1, on the promise pci controller: win2k 2) A few weeks later i decided to install winMe on DISK 2, on the default motherboard controller (cuz of a scanner that doesn't work in win2k). I can boot either OS by changing the first boot device... But i wondered if it was also possible to do it through a bootmenu. I have done dual boots before, using the win2k boot loader, but both operating systems were on the same HD then, winme on a primary an win2k on a logical partition. So win2k put its bootfiles on the winMe partition, then what "bobbinbrisco" said worked. Do i have to put my win2k bootfiles on the winMe harddisk????? If yes, which files do i have to move? Share this post Link to post
bobbinbrisco 0 Posted August 20, 2001 i have recently installed 2 operating systems on separate disks, that is i have 2 harddrives that aren't partitioned. So i have a c:\ and a d:\ . i installed winme first into d:\ (2nd hard disk) and win2k later on c:\(1st hard disk). this is what my boot.ini file looks like: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect C:\ = "Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition" Share this post Link to post