I think I can follow Pegasus way to recreate a boot.ini file. But for ntldr
and ntdetect I will be copying from WinXP CD. Right?

"Timothy Daniels" wrote:

> "Pegasus (MVP)" replied:
> >> "Timothy Daniels" asked:
> >> [........] there frequently
> >> appears the problem about single-booting an OS that had
> >> previously been part of a dual-boot where the load files
> >> (i.e. boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com) were in the partition
> >> containing the removed OS. More specifically, the load
> >> files and OS #1 were in what the poster calls the "C:"
> >> drive, and OS #2 resides in the "D:" drive, and he wants
> >> to boot OS #2 without the "C:" drive present. So the
> >> problem then arises about providing the load files for the
> >> "D:" drive. If ntldr and ntdetect.com could simply be copied
> >> over from the "C:" drive, would they work on the "D:" drive?
> >
> > Yes, they would, and it's what I should have said in the
> > first place. Thanks for pointing it out.
>
>
> Whew! Thanks. That question has been echoing
> around the WindowsXP newsgroups for more than a
> year without an answer until now.
>
> *TimDaniels*
>