XP uninstall problem

[Richard Hollister]

tried to uninstall XP and load 2000 Pro. Made bad
assumption and thought that I had 2 hard drives C,D, when
infact it was just the C drive partitioned. With thoughts
of installing 2000 on the D drive I loaded 2000 CD and
commenced to load it on D. Formatted ok, but then it
started to load the operating system software onto the C
drive. It abended leaving XP corrupted. It now won't
boot up. Comes up with "Disk Boot failure - insert sys
disk and press enter". Didn't make a startup disk, (maybe
you can't make one in XP), so I only get to the IRQ
screen, and don't get to the BIOS to change the startup
drive to the E drive to use the CD recovery disks. I
would like to reload XP, (no disk, it came already
loaded), and then load 2000 onto the other partition.

HELP....please.

 

[purplehaz]

You'll need to format the drive (and repartition if necessary). Then install
win2k on one partition. After it's up and running install xp. If you only
have recovery disks from your oem computer, then you're out of luck. The
recovey cd's will format the drive and wipe win2k out. You need real xp cd's
and the older os should always be installed first.
There is a way to install win9x after xp is installed, but it's risky and I
don't know if it will work with win2k.
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

 

[Mike]

http://www.bootdisk.com