Problem with dual boot Windows 2000 and Windows Home XP

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Hello I was having trouble accessing my Windows XP Home edition from my dual
boot Windows XP Home/Windows 2000 Professional system. I used both Win2K and
WinXP CDs and their respective repair functions and no help. When I select
the Windows XP Home operating system from the boot select menu I get a
message that some file for Windows 2000 is corrupt and to use the Windows
2000 CD or F8 function. If anyone can help me by telling me how to access the
Windows XP partition that would be very much appreciated. Thank you in
advance.

System affected:
Acer 2303LCi laptop
intel celeron m 340 processor
1.5 GHz 400 Mhz
768 MB RAM
40GB harddrive
Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 5 and fully updated
Windows XP Home fully updated
 
boci2 said:
Hello I was having trouble accessing my Windows XP Home edition from my dual
boot Windows XP Home/Windows 2000 Professional system. I used both Win2K and
WinXP CDs and their respective repair functions and no help. When I select
the Windows XP Home operating system from the boot select menu I get a
message that some file for Windows 2000 is corrupt and to use the Windows
2000 CD or F8 function. If anyone can help me by telling me how to access the
Windows XP partition that would be very much appreciated. Thank you in
advance.

System affected:
Acer 2303LCi laptop
intel celeron m 340 processor
1.5 GHz 400 Mhz
768 MB RAM
40GB harddrive
Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 5 and fully updated
Windows XP Home fully updated
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There's just too much left unsaid here and maybe just a bit of confusion.
Windows 2000 Service Pack 5? You sure about that?

How did you setup your dual boot?
Did you partition your hard drive and install each O/S on its own partition?
What was the O/S install order?

Deatils please, lots of deatails.
 
boci2 said:
Hello I was having trouble accessing my Windows XP Home edition from my dual
boot Windows XP Home/Windows 2000 Professional system. I used both Win2K and
WinXP CDs and their respective repair functions and no help. When I select
the Windows XP Home operating system from the boot select menu I get a
message that some file for Windows 2000 is corrupt and to use the Windows
2000 CD or F8 function. If anyone can help me by telling me how to access the
Windows XP partition that would be very much appreciated. Thank you in
advance.

System affected:
Acer 2303LCi laptop
intel celeron m 340 processor
1.5 GHz 400 Mhz
768 MB RAM
40GB harddrive
Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 5 and fully updated
Windows XP Home fully updated
Click to expand...

A few things about your post are somewhat unclear, e.g.
- Where exactly are the two OSs installed?
- What boot loader do you use - the native Windows boot
loader or a third party boot manager?
- Did the dual boot ever work?
- What happened to make it fail?
- Which OS works now?
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
A few things about your post are somewhat unclear, e.g.
- Where exactly are the two OSs installed? =on two separate partitions
- What boot loader do you use - the native Windows boot =the native boot loader
loader or a third party boot manager?
- Did the dual boot ever work? =never but I can access the Winows 2000 install no problem
- What happened to make it fail? =no incident happened as far as I can tell it never worked
- Which OS works now? =Windows 2000 Professional
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Colon Terminus said:
There's just too much left unsaid here and maybe just a bit of confusion.
Windows 2000 Service Pack 5? You sure about that?

How did you setup your dual boot? =wiped out a partition and then created one,formatted it using Windows 2000 Pro install CD
Did you partition your hard drive and install each O/S on its own partition? =yes
What was the O/S install order? =Windows 2000 Pro first (default) and Windows XP Home secondary

Deatils please, lots of deatails.
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Even though you say in your reply to Colon Terminus that you loaded
WinXP ***after*** Win2000, I suspect that you made a mistake and
that you currently have the Win2000 boot files. They won't work for
WinXP.

To fix the problem you must unhide the files c:\ntldr and c:\ntdetect.com,
then replace them with the ones found in the i386 folder of your WinXP
CD.

You should also post the contents of the hidden file c:\boot.ini.

If the problem persists then you need to quote the exact error
message you see on the screen during the WinXP boot.
 
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