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D Fulton wrote:
> 
> Help,
> 
> After setting up a new partition on a hard drive, NT told me to change
> my boot.ini to reflect a change in partition number from 2 to 3, and I
> forgot to do it.
> 
> How can I change it - I can't bet into NT - and the partition is NTFS
> so I can not change it after booting with dos boot disks.
> 
> Please help
> 
> Dan Fulton

Dan, This is not a problem I have faced but here is a suggestion. I run my PC with three separate 
installations of NT so that I can always gt out of problems. I have one on C: one on D: and one on E:. 
C:\WINNT35 is a basic never to be touched version. D:\WINNT35 is my current in use version, and E:\WINNT35 
is a mirror copy of D:\WINNT35 when I am confindent that it is REALLY solid.  By booting in C:\WINNT35 I 
can copy with a simple drag and drop the complete contents of D:\WINNT35 over E:\WINNT35. If I screw 
something up I can always come back one stage.
So how does this help you?
You say that you can boot from DOS. So once you have booted from DOS you should be able to install a new 
version of WINNT35 from DOS, assuming you have the disk space available. As I say I have never fallen foul 
of this problem because of my three instalation strategy but if you can install a new version then when 
you boot with the new version you should be able to access all your files and simply re-edit the boot.ini 
file to refelct the correct.
My boot.ini looks like this
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT35.NEW
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT35.NEW="Windows NT Workstation Ver 3.51 D:\WINNT35.NEW"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT35.NEW="Windows NT Workstation Ver 3.51 E:\WINNT35.NEW"
C:\="Microsoft Windows 95"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT35.NEW="Windows NT Workstation Ver 3.51 D\WINNT35.NEW [VGA mode]" 
/basevideo
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT35="Windows NT Workstation Version 3.51 C:\WINNT35"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT35="Windows NT Workstation Version 3.51 C:\WINNT35 [VGA mode]" 
/basevideo /sos
\WINNT35="Windows NT Workstation Version 3.5 D\WINNT35"
scsi(0)disk(6)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT35="Windows NT Workstation Version 3.5 D\WINNT35[VGA mode]" 
/basevideo
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT35.NEW="Windows NT Workstation Ver 3.51 E:\WINNT35.NEW [VGA 
mode]" /basevideo

C: and D: are the same physical drive and E: is a second physical drive.
So I figure that 
C: is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
D: is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)
E: is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)
I hope this is of some help.