Re: XP and 2000 on separate hard disks

greypound wrote:
To solve multiple problems I have installed 2000Pro SP4 on one hard
drive and XP SP2 on another.

At the moment I cannot boot with both drives connected - the slave
drive is not seen and the boot process halts.
Each OS works well when only one drive is connected.

I know that to have a dual boot system XP has to be installed after
2000 so that the XP boot sector gives access to files that allow 2000
to boot.

I can reinstall XP since I haven't modified it too much yet. Does
anyone know how to allow both drives to co-exist ? Can the XP boot
sector be modified?

JeffT

Make sure your Windows 2000 drive is not over 130 gig. 2000 balks at that.



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