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This is the tale of two OS's. Last week, due to some power surges, a hard
drive running windows 2000 was tweaked just enough to not allow windows to
boot. So I transferred the hard drive to a second computer, and transferred
all the documents and data files to an XP hard drive. Once the files were
backed up, I proceeded to (oh so carefully) reformat the 2000 drive, and
successfully managed to *not* demolish the XP drive. After disconnecting the
XP drive from the machine, so as not to try and install two OSs on the same
partition, I proceeded to reinstall windows 2000 on the previous windows 2000
hard drive.
Upon installation, and the subsequent patching, AV software, and copying of
the backups, the newly refurbished windows 2000 drive was removed to be
placed into its original case. But all was not well.
When the two drives were in the same machine, it was treated as a dual boot
system, and asked whether I wished to boot into 2000 or XP. After removing
the 2000 hard drive, the dual boot option was still there. Not thinking too
much of this remaining option, I selected XP. Lo and behold, the XP machine
attempts to boot into...Windows 2000! Not surprisingly, it couldn't do so.
Thinking perhaps I had selected the wrong option by mistake, I tried again
with the same result.
Now the machine will not boot into XP. It will not boot into 2000, unless
the hard drive that actually has 2000 on it is installed in the machine.
The backup files from the 2000 computer were only copied to the desktop, not
the system folders. When in 2000, the XP drive can still be accessed and
files can be moved between the two hard drives. The windows 2000 drive runs
normally.
The OEM feels that some 2000 files must have gotten into the XP system to
cause this problem, but are at a loss as to how exactly it could occur
without a picture of a patron saint appearing on the case or a microscopic
black hole appearing inside the room and causing quantum time-space
distortions, thus briefly suspending the laws of cause and effect.
Are there ANY solutions to a problem like this? The only other options are
to reformat/reinstall XP on this machine, which will be fun because there is
no installation disc, or pay the "Help" Desk to just *try* and look at the
problem, with no garaunteed solution.
drive running windows 2000 was tweaked just enough to not allow windows to
boot. So I transferred the hard drive to a second computer, and transferred
all the documents and data files to an XP hard drive. Once the files were
backed up, I proceeded to (oh so carefully) reformat the 2000 drive, and
successfully managed to *not* demolish the XP drive. After disconnecting the
XP drive from the machine, so as not to try and install two OSs on the same
partition, I proceeded to reinstall windows 2000 on the previous windows 2000
hard drive.
Upon installation, and the subsequent patching, AV software, and copying of
the backups, the newly refurbished windows 2000 drive was removed to be
placed into its original case. But all was not well.
When the two drives were in the same machine, it was treated as a dual boot
system, and asked whether I wished to boot into 2000 or XP. After removing
the 2000 hard drive, the dual boot option was still there. Not thinking too
much of this remaining option, I selected XP. Lo and behold, the XP machine
attempts to boot into...Windows 2000! Not surprisingly, it couldn't do so.
Thinking perhaps I had selected the wrong option by mistake, I tried again
with the same result.
Now the machine will not boot into XP. It will not boot into 2000, unless
the hard drive that actually has 2000 on it is installed in the machine.
The backup files from the 2000 computer were only copied to the desktop, not
the system folders. When in 2000, the XP drive can still be accessed and
files can be moved between the two hard drives. The windows 2000 drive runs
normally.
The OEM feels that some 2000 files must have gotten into the XP system to
cause this problem, but are at a loss as to how exactly it could occur
without a picture of a patron saint appearing on the case or a microscopic
black hole appearing inside the room and causing quantum time-space
distortions, thus briefly suspending the laws of cause and effect.
Are there ANY solutions to a problem like this? The only other options are
to reformat/reinstall XP on this machine, which will be fun because there is
no installation disc, or pay the "Help" Desk to just *try* and look at the
problem, with no garaunteed solution.