re: Repairing half of a dual-boot setup
Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 8:37 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by the ber
(68 messages posted)
i can't say if repairing W2K will kill XP or not, but this is what i would do: make
an image of the W2K partition, and make an image of the XP partition. you can use
the free version of acronis true image, or you can use norton ghost, or something
like that. i prefer acronis myself. then if you run the W2K fix and kill XP at the
same time, then you can just replay the images and be back to where you are now.
(better than nothing!)
i think the boot files are on the C:\ partition usually, so it may depend on which
OS you have installed on C:. if W2K is on C:\, then repairing the installation may
prevent XP from booting. always make an image before trying stuff like this. doing
this has saved me many times.
maybe you'll get better advice tomorrow, which is monday.
On Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 4:57 am, Kiwi wrote:
>Although my general opinion of XP remains somewhat negative, I have it installed
>on at least two PCs, due to game developers' choices not to support W2K. The newest
>PC's W2K has suddenly begun throwing BSODs during the startup (bad image checksum).
>
>This followed a recent visit to Microsoft's Updates page, and a security update
for
>MPlayer (I think, but can't recall for certain). WinXP still works fine, but I
can
>imagine that after I've run repairs from the W2K CD to sort out whatever went wrong
>there, I'll have a problem with the boot menu, or with XP itself, will I not?
>
>Anyone here had to do it lately? Am I right or wrong? Is it simple enough to fix?
> Thanks.
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