Dual Boot with WIN2k and WIN-XP

[Rich]

Hello,

I had Windows XP pro on a Dell with pentium 333, 192 Mb of memory and 60 Gb
disk. I needed to install Win2K to support AutoCad which won't run on
WinXP. I installed a new physical disk and installed Win2K on the new disk.
Win2K now runs fine but WinXP will not boot. Win2K shows both disks and
everything is accessible. The original disk was about an 8Gb c: and the
rest was the D: drive. When booting to XP, I get the following message as
the white progress bar is at the bottom of the screen:

file is missing or corrput in
"c:\windows\system32\config\SYSTEMd"
Message continues prompting me to press <F8> and select to repair existing
installation.

I rebooted to WinXP installed CD, ran the setup and opted to repair the
existing installation.
When prompted, logged into the original WinXP (recovery console) install as
admin. I've
never used this tool before and betweed reboots ran both fixboot and fixmbr.
No change. Still can't boot to Windows XP.

Can anyone exlplain what happened and how to recover my origing XP
installation?

Many thanks,

Rich

 

[Rich Barry]

Rich, the correct order of install is Win2k first then WinXP. The
boot.ini file for Win2k does not include Winxp hence
the problem. Best thing to do is reinstall WinXP as a clean install on
the orginal disk. Make sure that the second disk is
hooked up also. Xp will see 2k and include it in the bootloader. You can
try a Repair Install first.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm