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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
got CP/System/advanced/start up and recovery and click the edit tab(still post your line before you add the below text)
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(4)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
if you add this text to your boot ini(no space in microsoft cf added it) as long as your os is xp and on a primary partition this should (hopefully) catch it.
You will get a multi boot menu try each option until you find one that boots . Once your sure you have caught it goto msconfig/boot.ini and check boot paths . Dont do this at the start just in case you lose the boot you have now
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I've tried fixmbr and that didn't work.
Tried bootcfg/rebuild and that didn't work either however i just pressed enter when the options
Load identifier and os
load options came up, so when i now press F8 for the boot menu on startup i get a question of what i want to boot to.
1 option just says "" and the other is Windows XP, you can see this below.
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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=""
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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So it still doesn't work other than pressing F8.
Zingle should i enter that text you pasted? if so exactly in what format?
or
If i take the easy option and just reinstall my OS as i'm thinking of trying Vista out will that fix it?
alferret i might try your option over the weekend but my heads spinning and i'm looking for a quick way out now as i'm thinking of trying Vista and had enough tonight.
Atleast i can get it by pressing F8.
I've got an Asus A8N5X alferret.