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Hi, i hope this is the correct section for this quesion. as a hobby i like to record and mix my own music, and to do so i need quite a powerful pc with no un-neccesary programs running in the background, so i have 2 partitions set up, one for my music recording and one for everyday computer use. when i turn on the computer i get a black screen asking me which OS i want to load. well heres my problem, last week i re-installed windows on my everyday use OS as it was runnign rather slow. now when i load up the computer i dont get asked which OS i want to load it just loads up my everyday use side.
i know what you might be thinking, i must have deleted it all by mistake. well i havent. my music recording part of the computer is installed on a seperate hard disk. when i go to my computer i can see all my files, the windows folder/desktop etc, i just cant seem to find out how to load it on startup.
so my question is how can i bring back the option of which partition i wish to load? i havent deleted it, it is still there, windows xp is still installed on that partition, all the files are still there i just cant load it up
thanks for any replies

hi, im pretty sure that the two partitions are on seperate hard drives, and yes both partitions have there own OS installed. here is the info from the boot file

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

thanks for the reply,

aaron

hi i just tried that, edited it to this

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="music pc" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

when i clicked music pc i got this:
windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. could not read from selected boot disk. check boot path and disk hardware.

i guess just changing the 1 to a 2 didnt work lol. if i insert the windows disk it lists the current windows installations/partitions. wil the correct path be stated there?

just tried that and found this, hope it is helpful:

MB disk 0 at id 0 on bus 0 on atapi (mbr)
C: partition 1 NFTS

MB disk 0 at id 1 on bus 0 on atapi (mbr)
D: partition 2 NFTS

does this mean anything?

hi just to let you know i have sorted it out now i have changed it to this and it works just how it used to

[boot loader]
timeout=300
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Aarons music pc" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

the other partition was on a seperate disk so no wonder the path was wrong as there is no second partition on the first drive. changing the rdisk0 to rdisk1 has done the trick, not sure what it means though thanks for your help guys