re: dual boot xp & win 2000
Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 6:33 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by L. H. LOO
(163 messages posted)
The partition where the W2K is now is not in the bootable configuration {slave ?}.
check this also.
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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