multiboot

[William s]

I have Windows XP Home and Windows XP X64 installed on 2 partitions on the same drive. I installed the X64 before the older one. Whenever I start up the computer, it just automatically runs the X64 OS and doesn't even prompt to run the other one, any advice?

[Mac]

See if you can edit the boot.ini file.

E.G.

[boot loader]
timeout=10
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" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

[William s]

Could you explain exactly how to do this?

[Raptor]

Could you explain exactly how to do this?

Additional information and help with the boot.ini

[Mac]

And don't forget this bit...

How to rebuild the Windows boot.ini

[Gizmo73]

In the boot.ini file, the line that says timeout may be set to 0, which is the how many seconds the boot select screen displays before it chooses the default selection. Change this to something like 10 or however much time you need to select a partition.

[glb]Gizmo73[/glb]

[merlin_2]

http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/software/35285/

[William s]

Thanks guys, I got it working.