can't dual boot

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promicro

hi all,

i have Win2K Pro on the 1st partition of my hard drive and XP Pro on the
2nd partition. Win2K is my regular system and XP was just added. in
order to boot into W2k i need to use the ntdetect and ntldr from W2K, it
doesn't work with the XP version, and of course i can't boot XP with these.

what am i missing or what can i try ??

thanks and happy holidays to all

rob

ps:my partitions were created with PartitionMagic
 
What error message are you getting when you try to boot Windows 2000
with the XP version of the mentioned files?

John
 
promicro said:
hi all,

i have Win2K Pro on the 1st partition of my hard drive and XP Pro on the
2nd partition. Win2K is my regular system and XP was just added. in
order to boot into W2k i need to use the ntdetect and ntldr from W2K, it
doesn't work with the XP version, and of course i can't boot XP with these.

what am i missing or what can i try ??

thanks and happy holidays to all

rob

ps:my partitions were created with PartitionMagic
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First format a floppy from win2k
and copy ntdetect.com ntldr and boot.ini to it
and confirm that it will allow you to boot to Win2k

Then
bot from your XP cd
and from the repair console issue the command : fixboot
 
John said:
What error message are you getting when you try to boot Windows 2000
with the XP version of the mentioned files?

John
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John, the error message = the following file is either missing or
corrupted: \winnt\system32\config\system fix or replace etc...

I ran the fix: fixboot & fixmbr on the W2K cd with no change, also
tried the same with the XP cd

thanks
 
philo said:
First format a floppy from win2k
and copy ntdetect.com ntldr and boot.ini to it
and confirm that it will allow you to boot to Win2k

Then
bot from your XP cd
and from the repair console issue the command : fixboot
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hi

that didn't work either but let me list what I did:

1) create floppy boot disk & confirmed
2) boot on XP cd and entered repair
3) screen displayed: select drive D: (W2K)
K: (XP)
4) I entered fixboot - screen displayed 'fixboot on C:?'
5) I entered 'Y'

maybe I should have done fixboot on D:? my primary drive is the
physical C: drive with no OS on it and my secondary drive is my logical
C: drive with W2K, and logical D: drive with my XP - I don't know where
repair got the K: drive...

thanks, rob
 
promicro wrote:

John, the error message = the following file is either missing or
corrupted: \winnt\system32\config\system fix or replace etc...

I ran the fix: fixboot & fixmbr on the W2K cd with no change, also
tried the same with the XP cd

thanks
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Your boot.ini file is wrong. Assure yourself that you don't have two
boot.ini files and that you are placing the XP ntldr & NTDETECT.COM
files in the right location and that you are using a valid boot.ini
file. These files all belong in the root of the Active (System) partition.

John
 
promicro said:
hi

that didn't work either but let me list what I did:

1) create floppy boot disk & confirmed
2) boot on XP cd and entered repair
3) screen displayed: select drive D: (W2K)
K: (XP)
4) I entered fixboot - screen displayed 'fixboot on C:?'
5) I entered 'Y'

maybe I should have done fixboot on D:? my primary drive is the
physical C: drive with no OS on it and my secondary drive is my logical
C: drive with W2K, and logical D: drive with my XP - I don't know where
repair got the K: drive...

thanks, rob
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Regardless of where your different operating systems are installed...
your boot files always go on the active primary partition or the C: drive

Of course Partition Magic might have done something funny???
 
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