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Skriven 2012-04-24 20:08:30 av Barry Landy
Ärende: Re: Boot Manager & XP
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From: Barry Landy <bl10nospam@cam.ac.uk>

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, PaulRS wrote:

:>On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:58:46 UTC, "Mr. G" <nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
:>
:>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:51:58 UTC, "Mr. G" <nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
:>> 
:>> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:31:49 UTC, "PaulRS" <prschmi@Zfrontier.com> wrote:
:>> > 
:>> > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:17:01 UTC, "Alex Taylor" 
:>> > > <mail.me@reply.to.address> wrote:
:>> > > 
:>> > > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:01:43 UTC, Paul <paulrs@Zfoxinternet.net>
wrote:
:>> > > > 
:>> > > > > I have an OS2 Laptop with OS2 Boot Manager and have installed Win
XP. 
:>> > > > > Of course it deactivated BM.  Can I reactivate BM without messing
up XP? 
:>> > > > >   I know XP has it's own Boot Manager and this is different from
the 
:>> > > > > Win2000 formerly installed on that partition.  With Win2000, 
:>> > > > > reactivating worked fine.
:>> > > > 
:>> > > > Yes, but do it from Windows, not from OS/2!
:>> > > > 
:>> > > > Go into the Windows "Logical Disk Manager" (available under the
Manage
:>> > > > utility which IIRC you can get to by right-clicking My Computer).
:>> > > > 
:>> > > > Locate the Boot Manager partition and select to set it active.
:>> > > > 
:>> > > > 
:>> > > > If you do it this way, Windows will correctly update its BOOT.INI
file
:>> > > > to accomodate altered partition numbering.  If you don't do it this
way,
:>> > > > Windows will probably not be able to boot until you use DFSee or
something
:>> > > > similar to repair the BOOT.INI file.
:>> > > > 
:>> > > 
:>> > > OK, I go to  Computer Management->Storage->Disk Management.  All the 
:>> > > partitions are displayed.  Boot Manager is listed first and it says: 
:>> > > Healthy (OS2 Boot Partion).  A Right Click on it ONLY ALLOWS "Delete 
:>> > > Partition."  The "Mark Partition as Active" is greyed out.  
:>> > > Suggestions . . . .
:>> > > 
:>> > >  Paul
:>> > 
:>> > a) You should be able to do it from DFSee without having
:>> >     to do a fix boot.ini
:>> > 
:>> > b) insert XP install CD, go into fdisk and activate from there.
:>> >     Remember to remove CD before reboot.
:>> > 
:>> > c) insert OS/2 install CD; same action as b) except it will be LVM
:>> 
:>> Those are OR choices, pick one.
:>> Sorry for any confusion
:>
:>OK - Since you thought a simple reactivation would work, I went ahead 
:>and used my OS2 Utility disks to make BM startable again and see what 
:>would be the results with WinXP (It was and could again be a "fresh 
:>installation" - just did not want to waste the hour++).
:>  Well it worked.  I had  BM 7mb and XP (C:) as the first two primary 
:>partitions and the rest of the partitions on a logical partition 
:>(OS/2, a Maintain partition, and Open SuSE all bootable, then some 
:>data partitions)
:>   WindowsXP did say that new stuff had been done and I needed to 
:>restart.  I first looked at the "boot.ini" file which had been 
:>modified to note a "multiboot" configuration.  At that point I wished 
:>I had made a boot.ini backup of the original, but fearlessly went 
:>forward with the reboot.  It booted to BM, and I selected WinXP.  It 
:>continued to boot up and work.  It may be that I am NOT having trouble
:>because this is on an (old) IBM T-20 thinkpad.  However, I am happy 
:>for those responding to this post.  The WinXP replaced a Win2000 on 
:>the same partition which I originally did the same (Again make BM 
:>startable) as above.  The new XP boot manager was my anticipated 
:>problem.  Not so this time.  Thanks to all responding.
:>  Paul

I have sometimes (often) found that after installing WinXP I need to 
replace the MBR (windows puts its own version in there) with the one 
that DFsee installs (choose the "keep partition tables" option :-) 

AFAIR its to do with booting in large HDDs.

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