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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re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 11:01 pm Posted by Anthony Bejarano (3 messages posted) I'm having some trouble understanding but I think you're saying that XP is installed on the second partition of the master drive on the first IDE channel. Also that your old drive is on the same channel as slave. Then the first and second lines on the boot.ini reference your XP system. I think third line should be multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1) I think the count goes 0,1,2,3 for IDE1 master, IDE2 master, IDE1 slave IDE2 slave. Otherwise the line would have to be multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1) if the count goes IDE1 master, IDE1 slave, etc. By the way, if you put each disk as master and the CDROMS as slaves on each channel, the system will be faster when it is copying or moving files from disk to other disk. 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Friday, October 25, 2002 at 2:46 pm 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 6:26 am Posted by L. H. LOO (163 messages posted) www.redhat.com/tech/books/RHL_Survival_Kit/ch03_Fa.html has good info. I just followed to dual boot XP and Linux Mandrake 8.2 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 6:33 am 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 7:58 pm Posted by Jim (1 messages posted) I ran into this issue as well. I got to the point where I could boot neither OS. I used to be able to boot 2000, but not XP. After using your procedure below I can boot XP but not 2000. the error complains about the hal.dll file. I am running Bootmagic 7.01. Can you offer any advice? Thanks for getting me this far. Jim Verheul 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Friday, November 14, 2003 at 12:31 pm 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2003 server Saturday, December 6, 2003 at 10:28 am Posted by chris connolly (2 messages posted) Hi all. I have windows 2003 server installed on my C drive. and Windows XP Pro on D. When i try and boot Xp. i get a message sayin that it cannot complete task. My boot ini looks like: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP" /fastdetect can anyone help me please. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 2:05 am 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Thursday, March 18, 2004 at 9:56 pm Posted by Vaughn (1 messages posted) Help, I have a similar problem. I upgraded my motherboard and processor and installed XP. My c drive somehow partitioned both. XP works fine but when I try to boot to win 2k it gives me the blue screen of death. I booted from my 2k cd and chose the emergency repair. It said it had been done and restarted my computer but when I tried to boot to 2k the same thing happened. My d drive is just for files and games and my e drive is the cd rom. Any ideas on what to do? 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. > > >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 >> > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 10:03 pm 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Tuesday, April 6, 2004 at 5:31 pm Posted by Peerless (1 messages posted) I think the real problem here is that you moved an OS with a specific chipset for a specific MotherBoard to a new MotherBoard...I think you will need to reinstall win2k and install the approprate .inf file for the motherboard 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot xp & win 2000 Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 4:05 pm Posted by mythos (1 messages posted) I've got more or less the same prob. I have installed win2k on one HD and xp on the other. I set the jumpers at the back of the HD as 'cable defined' since i have one IDE. HOwever, i dont have a boot.ini file (tho i'm told i should have had one) and win2k was installed previous to xp. At some point i was also told that in the BIOS i should set the Primary master and slave as 'user type defined' or something similar and i did it, but again i cannot get the starting screen which allows me to choose between the two OS. Im forced every time to change the boot sequence thru BIOS. Right clicking on XP's 'My computer' and setting the 'start up and recovery' option also shows that there is only one OS instaled. In fact, each HD shows its own OS. What can i do? Im not the best when it comes to computers, so if u can give me a hand here, i may not be able to understand the terminology, so plz if u can, try to explain things a little more than usual :) Thank u!!! 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