boot up problem

[jojo100]

hi
my bro had a problem with Paragon boot manager, anyway hes back in his laptop now, but having a problem getting it to auto boot up, having to choose now disk 0 or disk 1, has hes got two HD in, anyway he clicks enter for disk 0, which he never had to b4 since the problem with paragon, any ideas why its doing it and not starting auto?
thanks for any help

[ACtheTROLL]

why is he using paragon ... what OSs is he running?
or at least trying to run

[jojo100]

hi
paragon was a big mistake, dont know to much why but wasnt what he wanted, anyway hes on vista, and both his HD's are showing as primary, as b4 it was primary and secondary,

[ACtheTROLL]

paragon is (was) normally used when ppl wanted more than one version of windows on their machine (95 & 98)

windows 2000, XP and vista already have this option built in and will all work together on the same machine (simple menu option on startup)

with paragon ... you split your disk into partitions and install 1 os to each one - paragon then works by hiding the other partitions so your system can only see one at any time.

BUT with 2000/xp/vista
the first partition is the one that holds ALL the boot information for all the OSs - so if you hide it ... you can't doo not nuffin.

If he wants xp and vista or similar - just make two partitions and install - they sort themselves out

if it's XP and Linux - as far as I know (one of the linuxy bods will confirm) there is a prog with linux that does the job (wine?)


http://kb.paragon-software.com/paragon/include /templ/object2.jsp?catId=21458&objId=1027&stat Id=1114410&foLang=en

http://support.paragon-software.com/showthread .php?p=1331

[jojo100]

hi
thanks for that, the mine problem hes having now tho, is that it will not auto boot up, like i said in the other post, b4 paragon it would boot up auto.
hes got rid of paragon but hes left with this now, and just needs to find out which setting or what ever he as to do for it to boot up automatically from the primary HD,
any ideas?
thanks

[ChuckFickens]

he needs a windows XP CD

It's the only possible way he is going to fix a Master boot record (witch is what he has screwed with!)

I said on a earlier thread of yours about this how to do it i'm sure.

Boot from CD, select recovery console, then type "fixmbr"

It will probably fix it