Repairing a Multi-Boot

For a variety of reasons people like to play with things that they should probably not play with. Things like alternate operating systems when they don't know what they're doing. Often, when an alternate operating system was installed incorrectly (or merely without completing steps), at boot it leads to a message of no operating system found (*NOT GOOD*).

Well, aside from telling them that they should probably not play with things like alternate operating systems if they don't know what they're doing — I supply the real answer:

1. Turn off the PC
2. Insert you XP CD
3. When prompted press "R" to select "Repair"
4. Pick the OS that you want to repair by it's number
5. Enter in your password if you made one during installation
6. Type bootcfg /list to see what's currently listed/active
7. Type bootcfg /rebuild to repair the boot.ini file
8. Remove CD, type Exit — and hope it works.

For additional information please see:
Problems with boot.ini

If you have specific questions not covered please feel free to stop by the G³ Forum.

OS: XP > General
Date: 12/02/05

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