re: dual boot xp & win 2000
Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 2:05 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by K.S. Hahn
(1 messages posted)
I tried the procedure below and it fixed my XP-won't-boot problem.
Cause of problem: Installed Win 2000 on a second partition in the same physical drive
as an XP installation.
2000 will boot but XP will not, giving me the 'XP could not start because the following
file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32\config\system'
What the procedure below seems to do is to replace the Win 2000 versions of ntldr
and ntdetect.com with the XP versions, allowing them to read the 'system' (registry)
file correctly.
In my case I was not able to read from the XP CD from the recovery console, so had
to copy the ntldr and ntdetect.com files from CD to the C:\windows directory while
in Win 2000, then go back to the recovery console and copy them to C:\ .
Thanks very much to Larry for posting the procedure.
K.S. Hahn
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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