Inactive (OS/2 Boot Manager

[Sherone Simpson]

Hello everyone and anyone who can help,

Today is a miserable sad day for me.

I had 2 operating systems on my PC, Windows XP Professional and Home,
different partitions created by PowerQuestion Partition Magic 8, now owned
by Symantec.

I decided to create a partition for Windows 2000 Professional, the partition
size was 866MB, I applied the changes and PM 8 requested I restart the
computer and immediately begin the installation of Windows 2000. I did so
and after an hour, I saw this error appear on the screen "NTDRL" missing.

Inserted the Windows 2000 CD, and it booted off it and installed flawlessly,
but I was not able to boot back into either XP Professional or Home. I
restarted again, this time off my XP disk to use the Recovery Console, I
used the following commands:

FIXBOOT
FIXMBR

Somehow, one of them corrupted the XP Professional Installation, I started
seeing this message:

WINK2KPRO C: 866MB
G: Partition 1 (Inactive (OS/2 Boot Man 22827 ( 3190MB - (this is the
XP Pro partition
F: Parition [NTFS] 2667 876 -
(this is the XP Home partition

Tell, me how can I set back to the G: partition active so I can boot back
into the XP installation?

I checked following, but it is of no help :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;283421&Product=winxp
I don't want to format the partition, precious data is on it.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282008&Product=winxp
Information is old and links me to Symantecs site which does not have a
solution.

Any assistance you are able to give will be much appreciated.

Thank you

 

[Guest]

Try inserting your WinXP CD at boot time, and enterring the setup procedure.
But make sure to select Repair and not Setup from the menu!

 

[jeroen]

Hey Sherone,

I am also having this problem. Have you found a way to resolve it
without having to re-format the hard drive?

Regards Jeroen

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

This problem is caused by the Win2K version of the boot files overwriting
the WinXP versions. The solution is to copy the WinXP versions of ntldr and
ntdetect.com to the root of the system drive. This can be done by booting
into the Win2K installation, and copying them from the I386 folder on the XP
disk (you do not need to expand either of them, they are not compressed).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Hey Sherone,

I am also having this problem. Have you found a way to resolve it
without having to re-format the hard drive?

Regards Jeroen

Hello everyone and anyone who can help,

Today is a miserable sad day for me.

I had 2 operating systems on my PC, Windows XP Professional and Home,
different partitions created by PowerQuestion Partition Magic 8, now
owned
by Symantec.

I decided to create a partition for Windows 2000 Professional, the
partition
size was 866MB, I applied the changes and PM 8 requested I restart the
computer and immediately begin the installation of Windows 2000. I did so
and after an hour, I saw this error appear on the screen "NTDRL" missing.

Inserted the Windows 2000 CD, and it booted off it and installed
flawlessly,
but I was not able to boot back into either XP Professional or Home. I
restarted again, this time off my XP disk to use the Recovery Console, I
used the following commands:

FIXBOOT
FIXMBR

Somehow, one of them corrupted the XP Professional Installation, I
started
seeing this message:

WINK2KPRO C: 866MB
G: Partition 1 (Inactive (OS/2 Boot Man 22827 ( 3190MB - (this is
the
XP Pro partition
F: Parition [NTFS] 2667 876 -
(this is the XP Home partition

Tell, me how can I set back to the G: partition active so I can boot back
into the XP installation?

I checked following, but it is of no help :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;283421&Product=winxp
I don't want to format the partition, precious data is on it.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282008&Product=winxp
Information is old and links me to Symantecs site which does not have a
solution.

Any assistance you are able to give will be much appreciated.

Thank you