On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:02:30 -0400, "JP Bless"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>First all, thanks Andy. I did what you said and it worked... Thank you. Now
>I have boot XP and WIN boot options at startup.
>
>However while XP boots up normally when I boot to XP, WIN2000 boots up so
>very slowly... When I boot to WIN2000 the screen goes blank for about 5
>minutes and then I see the WIN2000 logo appear after that. It is strange.
>Wasn't happening before, so I am wondering if the XP repair affected the
>WIN2000 bootup time. If so what should I do?
It shouldn't. As a test you could copy the Windows 2000 versions of
ntdetect.com and ntldr to C:\, and see if it boots faster.
>
>Thanks
>
>"Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:22:27 -0400, "JP Bless"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >I tried repair
>> >
>> >Useed XP CD to bootup
>> >Selected Repair using console
>> >Xp gives option to repair
>> >1: C:\WINNT
>> >2: D:Windows
>> >
>> >I entered 2
>> >XP asks for Admin password
>> >I enter Admin password and next I see D:\Windows command line
>> >and nothing happens after that...
>>
>> Type the following:
>> e: (comment: make CD the default drive; if
>> not e: then try f:, g:, etc.)
>> cd i386
>> copy ntdetect.com c:\
>> copy ntldr c:\
>> bootcfg /rebuild
>> (comment: select the XP installation)
>> Windows XP (comment: name of operating system)
>> /fastdetect (comment: options)
>>
>>
>>
>> >I restart the system and still I don't get option to boot to WIN2K or Xp
>> >I really don't know what else to do...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >"Bruce Chambers" <(E-Mail Removed)3t> wrote in message
>> >news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> Joshua Bolton wrote:
>> >> > Since you didn't back up those files you have two options. One is go
>to
>> >a
>> >> > friends pc that has xp and copy them off. Otherwise you have to do a
>> >repair
>> >> > install of XP to get them back. This means you will have to redo all
>> >your
>> >> > updates but your apps/data will remain intact.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Nonsense. A simple repair using the WinXP CD is all that's necessary.
>> >> There'll be absolutely no need to reinstall WinXP and it's updates.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> Bruce Chambers
>> >>
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>> >>
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>> >> both at once. - RAH
>> >
>>
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