Windows bootloader+2 hard drives

[scotter86]

Hey everyone, for the love of god i cannot get this straight. I have 2 hard drives, each runing windows xp home. I installed linux on my second hard drive and it over wrote the windows mbr. thats fine, not an issue. when i put my restore cd in to just install windows over the existing linux install everything goes great. accept it doesnt put a fresh windows mbr over grub. I realize if i get a restore cd i can do "fixmbr" or whatever the command is to rewrite it. But i dont have any floppy disks and I dont have any cd's to make a restore cd. So i figured I would just boot to the first disk and have the boot loader load the fresh os from the second harddrive. but i cannot get it to work. I put the entry in boot.ini and hit f8 and everything seems well but when i select the second entry it tells me windows cannot load it. I can expolre the harddrive and clearly see everything is installed. here is my boot.ini.


[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0 )disk(0)rdisk(0 )partition(1)\W INDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0) rdisk(0)partiti on(1)\WINDOWS=" Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(1) rdisk(0)partiti on(1)\WINDOWS=" Microsoft Windows XP fresh install" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

both disks are IDE. anyways I dont know if im missing something stupid or whats going on, but any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

[scotter86]

Ok, i figured out what the problem was with that. instead of Disk(1), i needed rdisk(1)

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0 )disk(0)rdisk(0 )partition(1)\W INDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0) rdisk(0)partiti on(1)\WINDOWS=" Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0) rdisk(1)partiti on(1)\WINDOWS=" Micro soft Windows XP fresh install" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

is what workedd for me.