Hi Bill,

You can certainly use a partition, along with multi boot in your
boot.ini. The reason that they suggest a new hard disk instead of a
partition is because it is somewhat difficult to get the drive letter
and ARC path settings correct in Target Designer, which can result in
several attempts needed to get it right (frustrating for beginners).

Assuming your hard disks are formatted with NTFS, set up multi boot by
changing your boot.ini to look something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP computer" /
fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="XP Embedded Test system" /
fastdetect

ARC Paths
It is important to get the "arc path" setting correct. Arc paths are
the Multi(0)disk(0)... strings in boot .ini. Assuming you have only
two partitions, you will use the
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2) as your arc path setting in TD.

BOOT Partition
Note that the boot partition is probably going to b
rdisk(0)partition(1). This just means that that partition is marked
active, and the system loads ntdetect and reads boot.ini from the 1st
partition. After it reads boot.ini it will load the OS selected from
boot.ini.

TROUBLESHOOTING
If you get blue screen errors or other problems (like infinite
reboot), boot back into your main OS and then check D:\Windows\FBA
\FBAlog.txt for problems.

Good Luck.

Steve

SteveDOTschilzATsbcglobal.net

On Sep 15, 10:49 am, "Bill Ames" aob.com> wrote: