problem with OS choice menu

[immaculate_goldy]

hi guyz....
iam having some trouble with my OS choice menu. i was using windows 98 as my OS on drive C and then i installed windows xp professional on drive D. but what happened is that its now not showing the OS startup menu and straight away it starts windows xp... i thought iam having a trouble with my boot.ini but i tried bootcfg command on recovery console of xp but its not helping me... so i need help from u guyz here...:icon_shak :icon_pale

[Auggie2k]

Restart the computer and when it's loading up, keep tapping the F8 key until the OS selection menu loads up.

[immaculate_goldy]

u havent got me i think Auggie2k... m not talking about the start up menu... but iam talking about the OS choice menu... big difference between both of them... n e way thnx for trying atleast...

[Auggie2k]

No I am talking about the OS choice menu, when you restart you computer, before you see the Windows XP loading screen keep tapping F8 or when in Windows, go to My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Settings > Time to display list of operating systems and select it for how many seconds you wish.

[mountain_rage]

you could also go start run msconfig

Then you can edit the boot.ini manually, search google for the proper way to format it.

[immaculate_goldy]

hey auggie thnx again... but i have 30 seconds over their in the boot.ini.. but still its not showing me the OS choice menu... do u have any other ideas about it ??

[Auggie2k]

Yes, I do actually. Get a copy of this program called Acronis OS Selector. I use it all the time and it's easy to use.

This is how it looks at the start up, before the computer actually loads into Windows. It will find all OS's installed...



It's easily disabled with a default boot selection and easily reenabled. Google Acronis OS Selector, you can make it full if you look properly.

[immaculate_goldy]

you could also go start run msconfig

Then you can edit the boot.ini manually, search google for the proper way to format it.

but i hv checked my boot.ini, its perfectly all right.. i think the problem is something else with this....

[immaculate_goldy]

Acronis OS Selector... is it free auggie ??

[Auggie2k]

Yeah, you can get a free version but if you "look" for "serials" you can find them.

[WE_DELIVER]

I think this is not solving your problem because instead of having two OSs installed ON THE SAME DRIVE, you have them installed on seperate drives. So from what I think, the logical place to choose where to boot to on your computer would be through your BIOS settings, in the bootable drive menu. I dont think youre getting a menu because each OS doesnt know that the other exists. I could be wrong about this however, although you can try going to you BIOS settings and seeing if your bootable drive is set to D first instead of C.