Daemon Tools Pro drive error: -1

**Blazkowicz** · 04.02.2009, 20:06

Open boot.ini in c:\ and add the following at the end of your Windows "/EXECUTE"

It should look like this:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /EXECUTE /USEPMTIMER

Ensure there is no /NOEXECUTE in this file.

**canadianrugby** · 21.02.2009, 01:08

I get the same error message when trying to set the # of drives except I get an error: -2 instead of -1. Is there a difference? I'm running XP.

**bf1** · 24.03.2009, 12:41

Hi, first post on here,
Having same problem but.. my boot.ini has this:

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

It has no execute, but I'm still getting the error..
What needs to be done?

Thanks,
bf1

**Main-Man-Jon** · 24.03.2009, 17:32

The instructions* seemed to say that you need to delete the "/NOEXECUTE" paramater and replace it with "/EXECUTE"

* From previous posting by Blazkowicz

Open boot.ini in c:\ and add the following at the end of your Windows "/EXECUTE"

It should look like this:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /EXECUTE /USEPMTIMER

Ensure there is no /NOEXECUTE in this file.

**muralijagennathan** · 23.04.2009, 09:35

Blazkowicz said

Open boot.ini in c:\ and add the following at the end of your Windows "/EXECUTE"

It should look like this:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /EXECUTE /USEPMTIMER

Ensure there is no /NOEXECUTE in this file.

I tried it but it doesnt work. Should I reboot it????

MY OS is XP sp2. And my boot.ini file looks like this

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Please Explain in detail what to change! Thanks in advance!

**Jito463** · 25.04.2009, 20:58

Code:

[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="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

You need to read the directions a little closer. You should change the above to the following:

Code:

[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="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /execute /fastdetect

**muralijagennathan** · 26.04.2009, 18:22

Sorry it doesnt work! so i use alcohol 120! Still prefer daemon though!

**evlncrn8** · 27.04.2009, 00:39

think that setting is for dep isn't it? and i dont think its the reason here, cos i have dep on on one of my pc's, and off on the other and have never had a dt pro problem when installing

**Jito463** · 27.04.2009, 01:54

Yeah, that changes DEP settings to disabled. I don't know if it fixes anything or not, I was just helping mura figure out what to do. I never turn off DEP on any of my machines and have never had an issue with Alcohol or DTools Pro.