I installed a new hard drive with Windows XP pro, adding to my previous hard drive. Is there a way to set it so I don’t have to open up my computer every time I want to access my old XP boot? Forgive me if this has been answered before, all I could find were references to Linux and XP dual boot.
I have installed a new hard drive in my computer, because my old WindowsXP installation continually leaked memory through explorer.exe, even after a reinstall. I have to set the new drive to Master and the old drive to slave. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to make my system boot to a slave. I have a two year old Dell desktop, btw.
There are some applications still need to access on the old XP system, but opening the system and rearranging cables or jumper pins is a real headache.
Hmm… should be there, it’s a system file though so you probably cannot see it.
You can edit it one of two ways:
From the explorer window, go to Tools->Folder Options, then click on the “view” tab. In the “Advanced Settings” window, scroll down to the entry labeled “Hide protected operating system files”, and un-select that entry. Hit apply, and you should be able to see the boot.ini file.
Open up a dos command line, and “cd” back to the “c” root directory. From there you can issue a “notepad boot.ini” to edit.
oops… it’s also hidden as well :rolleyes:, so in the explorer view options window select “Show hidden files and folders” in addition to unchecking “hide protected operating system files”.