nathansparks046
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I have a dell 4550 with 4 partitions on the hd. I have windows installed on d: and all my files are on drive c:. The computer boots from drive c. How can i get it to boot to d?
Partitioning Problem
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If your computer boots to windows fine then you dont really have a problem but if you think there is you can try this. open your boot.ini file (c:\boot.ini) it should look like this:
then add a line under the [operating systems] section, something sort of like this: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP D Drive" /fastdetect
the "Microsoft Windows XP D Drive" can say whatever you like, this is the text that will appear in the boot menu when you turn your PC on. I can't remember how the partitions are numbered so you may have to change the partition(3) to partition(4) and so on until it works.
Code:
[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" /fastdetectthe "Microsoft Windows XP D Drive" can say whatever you like, this is the text that will appear in the boot menu when you turn your PC on. I can't remember how the partitions are numbered so you may have to change the partition(3) to partition(4) and so on until it works.