Ok, i like most, i installed longhorn on another drive, while dual booting with xp. I just updated to MCE, and now all i do is boot in MCE.

So, if anyone still boots up in longhorn or has a back up copy of Boot.ini, please pm me, or post here. Thankyou!

ok, let me get this straight...
you updated xp to mce, and now your boot.ini is fux0red??
well, just edit it and put in your longhorn entry.....and no, im not gonna tell you how, thats your job to find out....

thanks man, big help. I know how, maybe it was posted earlier, i will do another search.

here are some links, just becuz you seem like a nice guy
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289022
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....ootini_4elv.asp
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_...Q_20368811.html

actually here is mine. I have slackware linux and longhorn, so there is only longhorn in the boot.ini file because i dont use the nt loader, i use lilo, but i am sure that if you put it into your boot.ini file and change the disk number and partition number and all that it'll work (remember partition 1 is not the first one, partition 0 is, that goes for the disk as well)

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn " /fastdetect /detecthal

Huh? In XP partitions are ONE based, not zero based!!! Has that changed for Longhorn???

ok, so what does
multi(0) mean?
rdisk(0) mean?

edit---oh ok, i screwed up, yeah, they are one based..lol i know remembered i only have three partitions, so that would be partition 2 if it were xero based, sorry for any confusion. i tend to blurt things out without checking, sorry

oh, and btw, I have no idea what all the multi and rdisk things mean.....i am a primarily linux user so.....but there should be a ton of info online for you, i found those three sites in like 2 minutes.

nm, i got it.

Darn... Too late. Well, here is mine but yours is likely to be different, anyway simply use "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn" /FASTDETECT" and edit the partition (4) to the number that partition is, for example, if you have an a,b,c and d parition and longhorn is on d select 4 and etc...