re: dual boot xp & win 2000
Friday, October 25, 2002 at 2:46 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(100 messages posted)
Your best bet is to use the Recovery Console to setup/repair your mbr so that you
can boot into either operating system.
You will need to boot up with your WinXP CD and follow these steps:
Choose the 'Repair' an existing installation.
You will be asked to choose which windows installation you want to repair(the WinXP
Recovery Console will see both the Xp and 2000 installations)
Type in your Administrator password.
Follow these steps:
1) Type FIXBOOT, answer (Y)es
2) CD \, press enter.(this takes you to the root drive)
Type and enter thes commands on at a time:
3) ATTRIB -H NTLDR
4) ATTRIB -S NTLDR
5) ATTRIB -R NTLDR
6) ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM
7) ATTRIB -S NTDETECT.COM
8) ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM
In steps 9 and 10, X is the letter of your CD-Rom drive.
9) COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\
10) COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
Answer yes each time the computer asks to overwrite the existing file. Type EXIT
to close
the repair console and reboot your computer. You should now be able to boot into
whichever
O\S you choose.
On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 7:20 pm, shepard wrote:
>Hi, I just bought a new computer with xp installed. I took my old hard drive and
>put it in the tower also, and want to be a able to run my old win 2000. My old
drive
>is partioned. Here is what I have so far,
>
>the xp root drive is c and there is a d partion as well. but the best I can tell
>it is on partition 2. This is set as the master drive.
>
>the other drive I installed shows up on the computer as G and H drives (partioned).
>This is set as the slave drive.
>
>I edited my boot.ini file as follows and the xp still works fine, but I get error
>messages for the 2000 boot. There must be a value to change to get this to work,
>I hope. If you have any ideas please help.
>
>[boot loader]
>timeout=5
>default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
>[operating systems]
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP" /fastdetect
>multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional"
/fastdetect
>
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