Dual Boot Windows 2000 laptop

[Paolo]

On an IBM ThinkPad T30. I have two hard disks, each containing
Windows 2000, which I swap in and out of the hard disk bay to boot
into. I want to merge the two OS partitions onto one drive. So:

HD1: Windows 2000 1
HD2: Windows 2000 2

will become

HD -> Part1: Windows 2000 1
Part2: Windows 2000 2

I've changed the partition layout of HD1 using PartitionMagic to the
following:

Partition 1 (Primary/Fat32/40 MB) - Runs BootMagic
Partition 2 (Primary/NTFS/20 GIGs) - Runs Windows 2000 1
Rartition 3 (Primary/NTFS/20 GIGs) - Will Run Windows 2000 2
Partition 4 (Primary/NTFS/20 GIGs) - Empty; will contain data files

Using Ghost, I make an copy of the Windows partition on HD2 and place
it on Partition 3 of the combined drive. I select this partition from
BootMagic and get the login screen. After entering my user name and
password, Windows just sits there for about a minute with some drive
activity. Eventually, the dialog "Saving System Settings" appears and
the login window appears.

I added the flag /BOOTLOG to boot.ini; the boot log has some entries
indicating that some drivers did not load. These lines, unlike the
successfully loaded drivers which look like "\SystemRoot\WinNt"
contain paths like "\??\C:\WinNt".

It seems odd that the partition will run on its own drive, but not on
a shared one. Could it be that the second OS partition is not getting
assigned letter C:?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Paolo

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Paolo

Yes. See if this MS Knowledge Base article can help you:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249321

Best regards

Bjorn