I have three harddisks. Windows is installed on disk(2). While boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com etc. are on disk(0). Whenever i change my bootdisk to disk(2) in the BIOS my computer does not boot? It only boots if I keep disk(0) as the bootdisk even though it does not have windows installed. Also if I add any new harddisk to my system it does not boot with the error message that the "harddisk configuration does not match...."
While in disk management windows shows disk(2) to be the boot disk.
I dont get it how come all the boot files viz. boot.ini etc. are on disk(0) when it does not even have windows installed?
I want to add another disk to install BCD. But I cant because of the above mentioned situation.
My boot.ini file is as under:-
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
awaiting your advice.
While in disk management windows shows disk(2) to be the boot disk.
I dont get it how come all the boot files viz. boot.ini etc. are on disk(0) when it does not even have windows installed?
I want to add another disk to install BCD. But I cant because of the above mentioned situation.
My boot.ini file is as under:-
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
awaiting your advice.