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Change rdisk(), not disk(0).

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:20:22 -0500, rootworker <>
wrote:

>Well, still messing with the boot issue (I still have to press F10 and
>select the drive I want to boot to), but I do have a handle on why my
>XP63 isn't seeing all of my drives --
>
>It seems that Norton GoBack changes the NTFS disk type code from
>06(hex) to 44(hex) , so instead of showing up as an NTFS disk/volume,
>they're showing up as a GoBack type.
>
>I'm investigating now, but I'm pretty certain GoBack isn't compatible
>with XP64, so I'm hoping I can remove GoBack from the 32-bit side and
>it will be smart enought to switch the settings back. Failing that, is
>there any way to directly manipulate those codes?
>
>As far as the actual booting goes, I did try changing the XP64 drive
>to inactive, but then it wouldn't boot at all, so I switched it back.
>
>In my boot.ini, I'n not sure which number to change to identify the
>disk on which resides the 64-bit OS -- I'm pretty sure my first disk
>(the XP32 boot) is 0, the big data disk is 1, and the XP64 boot disk
>is 2. I teried Should I then set up my boot.ini as follows?
>
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micr osoft Windows XP
>Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
>multi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Wind ows XP Professional
>x64 Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
>
>(I tried than and when I selected XP64 at boot time, it told me that
>there was no operating system on that disk, but that was while the
>partition was still marked as inactive.
>
>Thanks once again.
>
>
>Joe