Windows 2000 won't Boot after Installing XP : 2nd Request

From: Jenifer D. Scot (jenifer_scot_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:35:56 -0700

You may have to run one of your other 2000 cd disks, and
reestablish it's NTLDR to run in the XP NTLDR for
multiboot applications ( it repairs the link of NTLDR in
boot.ini)
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a Dell PII-400 which was running 3 versions of
Windows 2000: SP4, Sp3
>and SP2.
>
>I recently Upgraded the SP4 W2000 to XP Pro. The first
time I booted into
>XP, I got a stop error with BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO. A
search
>turned up article 283433 which told me to copy NTLDR and
NTDETECT.COM
>from \i386 on the XP CD, but this did not solve the
issue, as I got another
>stop error, but it went by too quickly for me to read it.
>
>After a lot more searching, I re-installed XP over
itself, and the XP
>problem went away.
>
>However, I now cannot boot into the Sp2 or Sp3 copies of
Windows 2000.
>When I try, I get the other message shown in 283433:
>'
>Windows 2000 could not start because the following is
missing or corrupt:
>\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.'
>
>I checked NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM, and both are the
correct XP versions. I
>cannot find anything when I search for 'Windows 2000
won't boot after Installing
>Windows XP', only article 283433, which is 'Windows XP
won't boot after
>installing
>Windows 2000'.
>
>In summary:
>
>I have WinXPSP1, Win2000SP2, and Win2000SP3, all in
separate partitions,
>but only WinXP is accessible. Boot.ini is correct, and
worked before the
>Upgrade.
>
>Has anyone a solution?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Britt Dickson
>
>
>
>
>.
>