Dual Boot Failure for XP home and Windows 2000

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Peter Nolan

Hi,
I thought I would put this here in case it helps someone else.

Situation.
I have an XP home PC and I wanted to put win2000 onto it in an entirely
separate partition. (Yes, I know that sounds crazy...but it's what I
needed to do....LOL)

If you try this...rule 1...take a backup...

I tried installing bootmagic and could not get it to work. Symptom was
that it would hide my D drive when it booted XP Home off the C drive so
XP home could not find the D drive.....I tried for hours to get
bootmagic and XP home to talk to each other properly to no effect...

Then I made my mistake.....I have two completely separate copies of XP
on my laptop and it gave me a selection menu like bootmagic....and I
guessed that if I installed win2000 it might be able to handle
that......wrong....

I spent 4 hours installing and building my win2000 system to be what I
wanted it to be...but when I tried to start my xp home OS again it
failed with corrupt system32/config/system file.

To cut a long story short...I tried one hundred and one things to fix
the system files...I then got corrupt hal.dll files etc. etc.

The answer is the NTLDR looks like it was changed by win2000 as it put
itself onto my F drive and then the win2000 NTLDR was not able to start
XP (fair enough).

The solution was to simply restore all the files in the root directory
of the C drive and reboot the PC...a 5 minute job!!!

So, I thought if anyone was as crazy as me as to try and put win2000
onto an XP home PC this append might just save you the time it took me
to find out what went wrong.....hope this helps

Peter Nolan
www.peternolan.com

Search keys
Windows XP Home win2000 system32/config/system
 
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Guest

Peter, Thank you. I still don't know how to reboot. I have a very slow
computer and getting slower every day. What do I do?
 
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Peter Nolan

Ellen,
do you mean you are not rebooting your PC regularly? Go to start->turn
off computer.....
Best Regards
Peter
 
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Gordon

Peter Nolan said:
Ellen,
do you mean you are not rebooting your PC regularly? Go to start->turn
off computer.....
Best Regards
Peter

Why should anyone NEED to "reboot regularly"?
 

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