Re: WinXP dual boot install to separate HD breaks Win2k

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"Rebus" wrote:
|I have an Abit AN7 system with integrated SATA controller. C: drive
| with the Win2kSP4 installation is a SATA drive. I added an IDE drive
| and installed Win2K on it originally in a dual boot configuration. That
| worked well for many months until this second installation became
| corrupt. So I installed WinXP to this second drive, selecting the
| delete partition and quick format options. Afterwards, the C:boot.ini
| shows both the original Win2k and the new WinXP boot options at bootup
| and WinXP boots and operates fine on drive D:, but now the main Win2k
| bootup reports, "Windows 2000 could not start because the following file
| is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM". This occurs
| immediately after selecting that boot option, not after the horizontal
| progress bar appears like when this file is really corrupt. Replacing
| the reg hives on C: from a backup set doesn't change anything either.
| This seems to be a boot file problem rather than a registry problem. It
| appears the WinXP install overwrote the Win2K ntldr and ntdetect.com
| files on C: drive, as it's supposed to (dates and filesize match the CD
| files). I'm not sure what else gets overwritten. I'm at a loss. Ideas?
|
| Scott


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