boot.ini is in the wrong drive

[auhsor]

Ok so I wanted to make my own boot screens, but after trying for ages and installing a couple of programs (booteditor, bootlogo) it seems that my boot.ini file has moved to my D Drive instead of my C Drive where it always was. I assume it was one of the programs I used that messed it up, but I was to change it back. I know I probably shouldnt have messed around with it but I did, and I sorta know what I'm doing, but yeah.

My C Drive is the one with Windows XP on it and where I install my programs. My D Drive is where I keep all my data. I did use the programs on the d drive, and they didnt need to be installed, so thats probably where it went wrong.

In windows Disk Management, I fount that the C drive was the boot drive and that the D drive was the system drive. I'm thinking that the C drive should be both the boot and system drive, but I dont know. Cos the D drive is just a data drive and hs no system files (except for now the boot.ini)

So is there a way to tell windows to look in the C drive for the boot.ini file. I've tried like deleting the one on the d drive, and copying it over to the c drive, but then my computer doesnt boot.

Some help would be appreciated.

[o0krylon0o]

Can you post the contents of your boot.ini file.

You can also check your boot.ini file by going to control panel -> system properties -> advanced -> Startup and recovery -> settings.

[auhsor]

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

After I edited out the extra OS selection that those programs added, it still reads it from the D drive. I'm guessing that the partition(2) thing means something. When I changed that to 1, it wouldnt boot, and I had to slave my hard drive to another computer to change it back.

And yes, going to control panel -> system properties -> advanced -> Startup and recovery -> settings, brings up the boot.ini on the d drive.

[auhsor]

Does anyone else have anything that would be able to help me?