Re: XP and 2000 on separate hard disks



On Apr 9, 10:28 pm, "John John (MVP)" <audetw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Check that the Master/Slave relationship is properly established, verify
that the drives are at the proper location on the cable and that the
jumpers are properly set. There is no need that Windows XP be installed
after Windows 2000 but keep in mind that the Windows 2000 version of
ntldr and NTDETECT.COM cannotbootWindows XP, if the installations
share the same System Partition use the Windows XP version of these
shared files.

John

Thank you. My error. I had not set the jumper on my second drive
for cable select.
I now have access to both drives.

The OS installations each have their own Primary partion on separate
drives.
At the moment I do not have the dual boot option. Do I have to modify
the Boot.ini file or duplicate the XP ntldr and NTDETECT.COM in the
2000 installation. ??

.



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