hi guys.
i have windows home on a sata drive. i recentley installed windows xp pro on a ide drive. whenever i atart the pc it boots srait to xp pro. what i wish is it to give me the choice for a few seconds then boot to xp home on the sata drive. at the moment i have to press f8 to choose the operating system, the trouble is now i cannot press f8 to go to safe mode.i also have a slave hardrive on the ide and 2 dvd burners dont know if that make any differance.
please can anyone help me.
this what my boot loader reads when i am logged on to xp home on sata drive
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partiti on(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micros oft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
cliff
i have windows home on a sata drive. i recentley installed windows xp pro on a ide drive. whenever i atart the pc it boots srait to xp pro. what i wish is it to give me the choice for a few seconds then boot to xp home on the sata drive. at the moment i have to press f8 to choose the operating system, the trouble is now i cannot press f8 to go to safe mode.i also have a slave hardrive on the ide and 2 dvd burners dont know if that make any differance.
please can anyone help me.
this what my boot loader reads when i am logged on to xp home on sata drive
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partiti on(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micros oft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
cliff
