Windows 2000 won't boot using XP ntldr and ntdetect.com - 3rd request

[Britt Dickson]

I recently upgraded Windows 2000 SP4 to XP Sp1 and then SP1a.

I now cannot boot into Window 2000 unless I use ntldr and ntdetect.com
from one of the Win2000 versions. This includes the original CD, SP2, SP3
and SP4, from which I have extracted these 2 files and placed them in C:\.
When any one of them is present, I can boot Win2000, but not XP.

When I switch to the XP versions, including the Base install, Sp1, Sp1a, or
Sp2, I can boot to XP, but not to W2000.

The error is the same for all:

'Windows 2000 (or Windows XP) could not start because the following is missing
or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.'

The message then says to do a Repair from CD.

This is driving me crazy, as I've followed all the instructions I can find in
the KB, including 283433,
which says I should be fine if I copy them from \i386 on the XP CD.


Help!

Britt Dickson

 

[Malke]

I recently upgraded Windows 2000 SP4 to XP Sp1 and then SP1a.

I now cannot boot into Window 2000 unless I use ntldr and ntdetect.com
from one of the Win2000 versions. This includes the original CD, SP2,
SP3 and SP4, from which I have extracted these 2 files and placed them
in C:\. When any one of them is present, I can boot Win2000, but not
XP.

When I switch to the XP versions, including the Base install, Sp1,
Sp1a, or Sp2, I can boot to XP, but not to W2000.

The error is the same for all:

'Windows 2000 (or Windows XP) could not start because the following is
missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.'

The message then says to do a Repair from CD.

This is driving me crazy, as I've followed all the instructions I can
find in the KB, including 283433,
which says I should be fine if I copy them from \i386 on the XP CD.

Stop driving yourself crazy and get a third-party boot manager. BootIT
NG is very good and reasonable.

Malke

 

[Britt Dickson]

Stop driving yourself crazy and get a third-party boot manager. BootIT
NG is very good and reasonable.

Malke
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I'm not looking for a 3rd party solution, but thanks anyway.

Anyone else?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

You posted with New Post instead of Reply Group.

I'm not looking for a 3rd party solution, but thanks anyway.

Anyone else?

 

[Britt Dickson]

I've posted 3 times with 1) no response, 2) an irrelevant response, and
finally 3) some useful info.
It seems as though once I get a response of any kind that ends any further
help, and I need to
fix this so I don't have to keep copying different versions of these files
to get at my installations.

BD