Paging the Windowsisti (FOAK)

Does WinXP need to be on the first partition to be bootable?

 

Yes.

 

ITYF the correct answer is www.linuxmint.com

 

Actually No.

But you do need a suitable bootloader on the first partition.

 

No.

 

That, of course, is what's on the first (extended) partition at the
moment

 

I'd much rather have third-degree burns.

 

Well, that's one vote each for yes and no! I've cloned my XP partition
onto the end of my new hard drive and set it active but can't seem to
boot it using GRUB. Googling told me Win2000 /has/ to be on the first
partition and I wondered whether that was the case with XP. ATM I have a
largish extended partition with two linux flavours, both of which boot OK
but the XP clone doesn't seem to want to play. Hey ho!

 

Aren't you even going to post your menu.lst? This box (XP on hda2) has:

title Windows XP
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

 

And have you updated boot.ini accordingly too?

 

How about we try that first?

 

I'm surprised he's asking actually. Everyone knows about grub, surely?

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as the windoows partition wasn't there when the menu.lst was written it
wouldn't help. Supergrub disk can't boot the partition so grub won't, I
suspect. I've tried Paragon Partitionmagic (DOS-based) and here I am
posting from that partition so it /can/ be booted, but Supergrub won't do
it.

*perks*

what is this boot.ini of which you speak? where is it and how do I update
it?

 

As I posted the other day, I'm not here to teach you the basics of
using windows. It's piss easy to find out about it using google
though.

 

Fair enough. I googled 'update boot.ini' and got absolutely no useful
results. I did a search in my cloned XP partition for boot.ini (including
hidden files) and got no results so obviously it's as piss-easy as
everything in windows. Sorry to bother you.

 

i think just "boot.ini" will get you there

 

hooray for common sense

one could also try grub and boot ini, as both are probably required to
give derek what he wants.

 

Snip

boot.ini is in the root of the system drive but you need to set the
view file options, so open up explorer and goto Tools->Options->View
and select "Show hidden files" and uncheck the option that says "hide
protected operating system files"

Boot.ini will look something like 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
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

As you can see it as the options to show which disk(0) and partition
windows is installed in (1)

HTH

 

This sort of shit makes me laugh at the "Windows is user-friendly" cretins.
Sniff away.

 

Your average user, Windows or not, doesn't install multiple operating
systems on multiple partitions.