Boot.ini question

This is a discussion about Boot.ini question in the Customization Tweaking category; I got a ata100 drive connected to a pci ata100 controller. this is my boot drive an all win2k boot files reside on it. I installed winMe on a ata33 drive on the IDE1 controller of my mobo. What lines do i have o add to make the boot menu see winMe??? My current boot.

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I got a ata100 drive connected to a pci ata100 controller. this is my boot drive an all win2k boot files reside on it.
 
I installed winMe on a ata33 drive on the IDE1 controller of my mobo.
What lines do i have o add to make the boot menu see winMe??? My current boot.ini looks lijke this:
 
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

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just add this line to boot.ini:
 
c:/="Microsoft Windows ME"
 
This is because windows me and windows 9x always put their boot up files into your boot drive (c:\)- so just add the line above to boot into win me.
 
win me should have added itself to the boot loader anyways...

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That doesn't work. The computer just resets when i choose "Windows Me" in the boot menu. Here's how i installed everything:
 
1) DISK 1, on the promise pci controller: win2k
 
2) A few weeks later i decided to install winMe on DISK 2, on the default motherboard controller (cuz of a scanner that doesn't work in win2k).
 
I can boot either OS by changing the first boot device... But i wondered if it was also possible to do it through a bootmenu.
 
 
I have done dual boots before, using the win2k boot loader, but both operating systems were on the same HD then, winme on a primary an win2k on a logical partition. So win2k put its bootfiles on the winMe partition, then what "bobbinbrisco" said worked.
 
 
Do i have to put my win2k bootfiles on the winMe harddisk?????
 
If yes, which files do i have to move?

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i have recently installed 2 operating systems on separate disks, that is i have 2 harddrives that aren't partitioned. So i have a c:\ and a d:\ .
 
i installed winme first into d:\ (2nd hard disk) and win2k later on
c:\(1st hard disk). this is what my boot.ini file looks like:
 
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
C:\ = "Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition"