re: dual boot xp & win 2000
Friday, November 14, 2003 at 12:31 pm
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Posted by slomo17
(1 messages posted)
wow! worked perfect! thanks a lot for your tip.
had really big troubles after installing win 2k on a xp-preinstalled laptop - but
now everything works fine again!
On Friday, October 25, 2002 at 2:46 pm, Larry wrote:
>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.
>
>
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