re: dual boot xp & win 2000
Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 10:03 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Holly Hider
(3 messages posted)
To propery dual boot 2000 and XP, you need one particular set of NTDETECT.COM (45KB
dated 8/23/01) and NTLDR (218KB dated 8/23/01). If you have an XP CD, look in the
i386 folder, and it should be there. The NTDETECT and NTLDR set for 2000 won't boot
XP! Similarly, NTDETECT and NTLDR for XP sometimes fail to boot 2000! I got this
problem only after installing XP SP1! Apparently, Microsoft has set the service
pack to clobber the old NTDETECT and NTLDR c:\ files, so you get screwed if a working
version existed there!
Hope this helps! If you have access to your drive from a different OS, don't mess
with DOS and Attrib. Just drag-and-drop them from I386 directly to C:\ (c:\ root)
Xel of xels.com
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- dual boot xp & win 2000 (shepard: Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 7:20 pm)
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