Dual Boot XP Home/2000 Pro

[Tony M]

Hi all,

I hope I'm not being stupid but here goes. I have two seperate systems.
One a Dell machine running WinXP Home edition and the other a garage
special running Win2000 Pro. I am tearing down the garage special to
play with and I wanted to put the hard drive from this machine into the
Dell machine with the idea that I could dual-boot into either OS without
having to perform any new installs. Is this possible?? I have modified
the boot.ini file on the Dell machine as follows (this may be off a
little as I don't remember the location of the XP boot files and I'm
nowhere near the machines):

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="Microsoft Windows XP Home"
/fastdetect
multi(1)disk(1)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect

I am having trouble booting into Win2000 Pro with the above
configuration. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Tony M.

 

[Camper]

Hi all,

I hope I'm not being stupid but here goes. I have two seperate systems.
One a Dell machine running WinXP Home edition and the other a garage
special running Win2000 Pro. I am tearing down the garage special to
play with and I wanted to put the hard drive from this machine into the
Dell machine with the idea that I could dual-boot into either OS without
having to perform any new installs. Is this possible?? I have modified
the boot.ini file on the Dell machine as follows (this may be off a
little as I don't remember the location of the XP boot files and I'm
nowhere near the machines):

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="Microsoft Windows XP Home"
/fastdetect
multi(1)disk(1)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect

I am having trouble booting into Win2000 Pro with the above
configuration. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Tony M.

Even if it could try to boot into 2000 you would still most likely have big
trouble if you just ripped the drive out of one computer and stuck it into
another. Most like;y different motherboard therefore different IDE drivers,
sound card and video drivers.