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    hi, could u please help......i was running winxp on drice c: but since one of my softwares wasnt running on that, i installed winme on drive d: and now my pc boots only in winme. i cant find the boot.ini file in either of my HDD or the cds of winxp and winme i have. what do i do? can someone help?? all my files and programs are installed on winxp in drive c:

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    Quote Originally Posted by khanshahab
    hi, could u please help......i was running winxp on drice c: but since one of my softwares wasnt running on that, i installed winme on drive d: and now my pc boots only in winme. i cant find the boot.ini file in either of my HDD or the cds of winxp and winme i have. what do i do? can someone help?? all my files and programs are installed on winxp in drive c:
    You need to make sure you have enabled viewing of system files.
    Open Windows Explorer and go to Tools > Folder Options.On the view tab put a check next to "Show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" then click apply.

    The boot.ini should be located in your root directory C:\

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    boot.ini

    i found the boot.ini file in drive d where i had installed winme, what do i do further? i want to get a dual bootable screen when i start my pc. i cant even access the bios of my pc

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    can you copy and paste the contents of your boot.ini here.

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    i was able to get the dual boot screen but now the prob is that it doesnt show win me in the options , it shows win xp twice. and one of the options doesnt work. i had used the fixmbr as well as fixboot options. wat do i do now?

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