Dual Booting W2K with XP, but now can't access XP

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John W. Anderson

Hi, I've been running a dual boot system for almost 4
years, first with W2K and 98SE, then W2K and XP Home.W2K
on drive c, XP on drive d (dual partition of single
physical drive).

I had a problem and had to reinstall W2K. PC gives me the
same old boot menu with XP as the second choice, but now
it won't let me go to XP. Gives me an error message to go
into Windows 2000 safe mode. W2K works fine.

Is there any way to repair the boot.ini or boot sector
data to get me back to XP without having to reinstall XP?
I've tried installing boot managers like System Commander
and Powerquest's Boot Magic, but they don't see XP either.
Drive D and all files where XP resides is fine. Nothing
seems to be missing, either.

I'm just nervous about installing XP and then screwing up
W2K. If I do have to reinstall XP, how should I go about
it? Do it from W2K or do XP boot floppies/CD-ROM boot?

Many thanks in advance.

-John
 
Boot the XP CD-Rom and from the recovery console;
fixboot
to repair the boot sector.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| Hi, I've been running a dual boot system for almost 4
| years, first with W2K and 98SE, then W2K and XP Home.W2K
| on drive c, XP on drive d (dual partition of single
| physical drive).
|
| I had a problem and had to reinstall W2K. PC gives me the
| same old boot menu with XP as the second choice, but now
| it won't let me go to XP. Gives me an error message to go
| into Windows 2000 safe mode. W2K works fine.
|
| Is there any way to repair the boot.ini or boot sector
| data to get me back to XP without having to reinstall XP?
| I've tried installing boot managers like System Commander
| and Powerquest's Boot Magic, but they don't see XP either.
| Drive D and all files where XP resides is fine. Nothing
| seems to be missing, either.
|
| I'm just nervous about installing XP and then screwing up
| W2K. If I do have to reinstall XP, how should I go about
| it? Do it from W2K or do XP boot floppies/CD-ROM boot?
|
| Many thanks in advance.
|
| -John
 
Dave --

Thanks very much! That will ask where to write a file,
won't it? Do I write it to the boot drive C or to the
drive where XP is, D?

Thanks again!

-John
 
By default it with write (rewrite) the boot sector on the first primary
active partition. Yes you can specify but normally not required.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| Dave --
|
| Thanks very much! That will ask where to write a file,
| won't it? Do I write it to the boot drive C or to the
| drive where XP is, D?
|
| Thanks again!
|
| -John
 
Hi, I've been running a dual boot system for almost 4
years, first with W2K and 98SE, then W2K and XP Home.W2K
on drive c, XP on drive d (dual partition of single
physical drive).

I had a problem and had to reinstall W2K. PC gives me the
same old boot menu with XP as the second choice, but now
it won't let me go to XP. Gives me an error message to go
into Windows 2000 safe mode. W2K works fine.
Click to expand...

The only thing you have to do is copy to C:\ the files ntldr and
ntdetect.com from the i386 directory of the Windows XP CD. You can do
this when running Windows 2000.
 
I tried it, and XP wanted to write the data to drive G! I
do have another HDD, which is also dual partitioned. So I
have C, D, E, and F. Weird thing is, first it found W2K as
C: WINNT and XP as E:Windows. I told it to go to E:
Windows. So I'm look at the drives, and it has them a
little mised up. That is, physical drive 0 is C and E and
physical drive 1 is D and F. Or should be, right?

Anyway, I'm worried about telling it to write it to C
instead. It didn't give me that option. It asked if I was
sure I wanted to write the fix to drive G. I typed "N"
andwent back to the console. If I want to tell it to write
to C, how do I do it, please? Say "Fixboot C" to begin
with? Or when it asks if I want to write to G, put "c" in
there instead of "n" for No?

I know this is confusing (at least to me). In Windows, my
drives show up as Drive 0 as C and D and Drive 1 as H and
I because of CD-ROMS E and F and a zip as G.

-John
 
When you reinstalled Windows 2000 did you format the partition or delete/
recreate the partition? If the latter then that may be the source of your
problem.


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| I tried it, and XP wanted to write the data to drive G! I
| do have another HDD, which is also dual partitioned. So I
| have C, D, E, and F. Weird thing is, first it found W2K as
| C: WINNT and XP as E:Windows. I told it to go to E:
| Windows. So I'm look at the drives, and it has them a
| little mised up. That is, physical drive 0 is C and E and
| physical drive 1 is D and F. Or should be, right?
|
| Anyway, I'm worried about telling it to write it to C
| instead. It didn't give me that option. It asked if I was
| sure I wanted to write the fix to drive G. I typed "N"
| andwent back to the console. If I want to tell it to write
| to C, how do I do it, please? Say "Fixboot C" to begin
| with? Or when it asks if I want to write to G, put "c" in
| there instead of "n" for No?
|
| I know this is confusing (at least to me). In Windows, my
| drives show up as Drive 0 as C and D and Drive 1 as H and
| I because of CD-ROMS E and F and a zip as G.
|
| -John
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >By default it with write (rewrite) the boot sector on the
| first primary
| >active partition. Yes you can specify but normally not
| required.
| >
| >--
| >Regards,
| >
| >Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in
| newsgroup.
| >Microsoft MVP [Windows]
| >Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
| >http://www.microsoft.com/protect
| >
| >
| >"John W. Anderson" wrote:
| >| Dave --
| >|
| >| Thanks very much! That will ask where to write a file,
| >| won't it? Do I write it to the boot drive C or to the
| >| drive where XP is, D?
| >|
| >| Thanks again!
| >|
| >| -John
| >
| >
| >.
| >
 
No, I didn't touch the partition or give any special
instructions. It's the same.

-John
 
Then there would be no reason for the active partition to change
fixboot C:
assuming that C:\ is and was the system partition.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| No, I didn't touch the partition or give any special
| instructions. It's the same.
|
| -John
 
Files with those names will be there, but if they're Windows 2000
versions, which they would be if Windows 2000 was the last OS
installed, they will not allow you to boot Windows XP. You have to
replace them with Windows XP versions.

Andy --

Those files are already there.

-John
-----Original Message-----
When you reinstalled Windows 2000 did you format the partition or delete/
recreate the partition? If the latter then that may be the source of your
problem.


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| I tried it, and XP wanted to write the data to drive G! I
| do have another HDD, which is also dual partitioned. So I
| have C, D, E, and F. Weird thing is, first it found W2K as
| C: WINNT and XP as E:Windows. I told it to go to E:
| Windows. So I'm look at the drives, and it has them a
| little mised up. That is, physical drive 0 is C and E and
| physical drive 1 is D and F. Or should be, right?
|
| Anyway, I'm worried about telling it to write it to C
| instead. It didn't give me that option. It asked if I was
| sure I wanted to write the fix to drive G. I typed "N"
| andwent back to the console. If I want to tell it to write
| to C, how do I do it, please? Say "Fixboot C" to begin
| with? Or when it asks if I want to write to G, put "c" in
| there instead of "n" for No?
|
| I know this is confusing (at least to me). In Windows, my
| drives show up as Drive 0 as C and D and Drive 1 as H and
| I because of CD-ROMS E and F and a zip as G.
|
| -John
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >By default it with write (rewrite) the boot sector on the
| first primary
| >active partition. Yes you can specify but normally not
| required.
| >
| >--
| >Regards,
| >
| >Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in
| newsgroup.
| >Microsoft MVP [Windows]
| >Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
| >http://www.microsoft.com/protect
| >
| >
| >"John W. Anderson" wrote:
| >| Dave --
| >|
| >| Thanks very much! That will ask where to write a file,
| >| won't it? Do I write it to the boot drive C or to the
| >| drive where XP is, D?
| >|
| >| Thanks again!
| >|
| >| -John
| >
| >
| >.
| >


.
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Ah! I see. I didn't think of that! Thanks!

-John
-----Original Message-----
Files with those names will be there, but if they're Windows 2000
versions, which they would be if Windows 2000 was the last OS
installed, they will not allow you to boot Windows XP. You have to
replace them with Windows XP versions.

Andy --

Those files are already there.

-John
-----Original Message-----
When you reinstalled Windows 2000 did you format the partition or delete/
recreate the partition? If the latter then that may be the source of your
problem.


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| I tried it, and XP wanted to write the data to drive
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G!
I
| do have another HDD, which is also dual partitioned.
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So
I
| have C, D, E, and F. Weird thing is, first it found
Click to expand...
W2K
as
| C: WINNT and XP as E:Windows. I told it to go to E:
| Windows. So I'm look at the drives, and it has them a
| little mised up. That is, physical drive 0 is C and E and
| physical drive 1 is D and F. Or should be, right?
|
| Anyway, I'm worried about telling it to write it to C
| instead. It didn't give me that option. It asked if I was
| sure I wanted to write the fix to drive G. I typed "N"
| andwent back to the console. If I want to tell it to write
| to C, how do I do it, please? Say "Fixboot C" to begin
| with? Or when it asks if I want to write to G,
Click to expand...
put "c"
in
| there instead of "n" for No?
|
| I know this is confusing (at least to me). In
Click to expand...
Windows,
my
| drives show up as Drive 0 as C and D and Drive 1 as H and
| I because of CD-ROMS E and F and a zip as G.
|
| -John
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >By default it with write (rewrite) the boot sector
Click to expand...
on
the
| first primary
| >active partition. Yes you can specify but normally not
| required.
| >
| >--
| >Regards,
| >
| >Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in
| newsgroup.
| >Microsoft MVP [Windows]
| >Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
| >http://www.microsoft.com/protect
| >
| >
| >"John W. Anderson" wrote:
| >| Dave --
| >|
| >| Thanks very much! That will ask where to write a file,
| >| won't it? Do I write it to the boot drive C or to the
| >| drive where XP is, D?
| >|
| >| Thanks again!
| >|
| >| -John
| >
| >
| >.
| >


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