Here's the senario:
In the system in my sig, currently I am booting off a 160 gig sata drive(20 gigs of which is unallocated), with windows 2000. Here is my current boot.ini file:
This works just fine. I also have a dvd/cd burner drive attached as a master to my secondary IDE channel, jumpered as such.
I downloaded the evaluation copy of win xp64, burned it to CD.
Shut down the machine, installed an 80 gig PATA drive as a master (cable select) on the primary IDE channel.
Bios boot order is: CD rom first, then HD's. HD's boot in order of SATA, then PATA primary channel.
Booted to XP 64 install CD, deleted the old partition that was on the recently installed 80 gig PATA drive, selected quick NTFS format to that drive and began install process. Computer rebooted.
Now since my boot order is set to SATA first, my win2k install comes up, just like I want it to. From here i'd like to edit my boot.ini file to enable me to dual boot between 2k/xp64. No dice so far, as I can't figure out how to get the ARC path edited correctly to allow the xp64 install to continue. Here is what I tried last, which when I choose the win64 OS to boot to, gives me the generic "blah blah cant load operating system error" basically telling me that my ARC path isnt right. (sorry, real tired here or i'd copy the error).
The /noexecute=optin /fastdetect portion of the xp arc path was included in the intial boot.ini file that the win xp64 installer created.
This shouldn't be this hard. Any help?
In the system in my sig, currently I am booting off a 160 gig sata drive(20 gigs of which is unallocated), with windows 2000. Here is my current boot.ini file:
Code:
[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" /fastdetectThis works just fine. I also have a dvd/cd burner drive attached as a master to my secondary IDE channel, jumpered as such.
I downloaded the evaluation copy of win xp64, burned it to CD.
Shut down the machine, installed an 80 gig PATA drive as a master (cable select) on the primary IDE channel.
Bios boot order is: CD rom first, then HD's. HD's boot in order of SATA, then PATA primary channel.
Booted to XP 64 install CD, deleted the old partition that was on the recently installed 80 gig PATA drive, selected quick NTFS format to that drive and began install process. Computer rebooted.
Now since my boot order is set to SATA first, my win2k install comes up, just like I want it to. From here i'd like to edit my boot.ini file to enable me to dual boot between 2k/xp64. No dice so far, as I can't figure out how to get the ARC path edited correctly to allow the xp64 install to continue. Here is what I tried last, which when I choose the win64 OS to boot to, gives me the generic "blah blah cant load operating system error" basically telling me that my ARC path isnt right. (sorry, real tired here or i'd copy the error).
Code:
[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
multi(1)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetectThe /noexecute=optin /fastdetect portion of the xp arc path was included in the intial boot.ini file that the win xp64 installer created.
This shouldn't be this hard. Any help?
