Disabled HDD in XP home sp3

Hello, I recently disabled my primary HDD in windows unintentionally. Now windows will not boot. I receive the BSOD message telling me i need to run chkdsk but i know the HDD works fine. I installed a second windows on the same hdd to boot to and it works.
My question is:
How can I alter the files in the windows folder of my primary install to renable the HDD so that I may boot it?
thank you for any of your inputs
-Ingraved

 

You need NTLDR, Boot.ini and NTDetect.com at the root of the hard disk to boot from it.

 

Those files are there and they work.
I can boot to the HDD from my second install of windows, this folder is named windows.0
My primary install with my original install of windows will not boot. I need to know how to configure this install to enable the HDD

 

Open your boot.ini file using Notepad and paste the file contents here.

 

You may also need to make you disk 'Active' to boot from it. For example, the following will make partition 1 on Disk 0 active.

C:\> Diskpart
Diskpart> List Disk
Diskpart> Select Disk 0
Diskpart> List partition
Diskpart> Select partition 1
Diskpart> Active
Diskpart> Exit

As Frank4d you also need to edit Boot.ini so that the correct disk and partition numbers of where Windows is installed are correct. Its usually something like:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows

 

I ran the diskpart command in CMD like you suggested pjhutch and i edited the boot.ini form \windows.0 to \windows and it did not work.
Hre is what I was doing prior to the crash.
Originally i was trying to remove the registry entry for Bonjour, ndnsnsp.dll and it caused an error in my startup services. I am on vacation and did not bring my original windows disk but I have an .iso that i made. so i was trying to run SFC with an emulated drive but it was not working. when i was trying to assign the emulated drive as the primary input device i accidentally disabled the HDD from the hardware tab in properties. Now i get a BSOD form that install. as you can tell i am unable to run the recovery console at this time. any other help would be awesome

 

Can you boot in to safe mode and change and settings there?

Recovery console is a bit restricted as you can only do some things such as
Enable - enable a driver
Disable - disable a driver
Listsvr - list services and drivers
Diskpart - disk partitioning
Fixboot - fix boot files (useful for fixing boot.ini)
Fixmbr - fix master boot record

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/r_c_cmds.htm

Another tool you can try is BartPE for fixing XP issues using a GUI:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

 

none of the advanced startup options help

 

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post a copy of the boot.ini

 

this is what i got;

 

Did you install both on same partition? If so I think the best thing to do is get whatever data you need off of that partition and start clean with format and re-intsall. You can't (as far as I know) put two copies of XP on same partition and have them both work.

 

my problem started before i had a second install
Also i do not have my install disks I am on vacation.

 

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