re: Repairing half of a dual-boot setup
Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 8:59 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5827 messages posted)
Image the drive(s) for back up if you need to first, then repair W2K. If nothing
changes on the XP installed drive, then just run the fixboot command from the XP
disc. That should fix the boot loader and you can edit boot.ini manually if you
have to, to add the XP install to it, if it isn't correct. (make a txt copy of the
boot.ini on the boot drive for reference) You shouldn't have to do a full repair
install on XP if the partition/drive it is on wasn't touched by W2K's repair.
If after repairing XP's boot you find W2K won't boot, you can add/fix W2K to the
boot.ini if for some reason XP's boot repair messed it up.
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm#How%20to%20Repair%20the%20Boot%20Sector:
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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