Re: Moving Win 2000 to a partition on a Win XP computer

Unless the image was from an identical PC/same hardware the its most
unlikely that win2k will boot anyway, without a repair installation, and I'm
not sure what that would do to winxp & the dual option

"Hans Wolf" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:05:20 -0600, "Dave Patrick"
<DSPatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This article should sort it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249321

Thank you, Dave!

We will try to change the boot partition drive letter with Partition
Magic, of whatever ...

Fortunately, on one of the computers it has been not C but D - it
might make it easier :)

H.


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