>Hi,
>
>I want to modify boot.ini to allow dual boot on a W2003 server so I know I need to add something like:
>multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="My second boot"
>
>But how can I discover the disk/partition info (all I know is the drive letter)
>
>I guess I can retrieve the information by starting a new installation procedure - IIRC that shows the existing drive information in the required format. But surely there's a simpler way?
Disk Management will show you existing partitions (My Computer...right-click...Manage...Disk Management)
They're shown in order, so you can just count up/down from your existing known partition number to configure the other one. As you probably know, hardware counters are zero-based.
Some useful info in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022
Regards. Al
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