Disabled HDD in XP home sp3

[Ingraved]

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

 

[pjhutch]

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

 

[Ingraved]

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

 

[Frank4d]

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

 

[pjhutch]

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

 

[Ingraved]

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

 

[pjhutch]

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/

 

[Ingraved]

none of the advanced startup options help

 

[Ingraved]

*bump*

 

[Frank4d]

post a copy of the boot.ini

 

[Ingraved]

this is what i got;

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

 

[shinybeast]

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.

 

[Ingraved]

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

 

[Ingraved]

*bump*