Ive got a 30G HD, i have XP on it and used Partition magic 7 to create a partition for windows 2000 (15G for XP and 15G for windows 2000 Pro).
That worked fine but after i installed windows 2000 pro there is no sign of XP and the drive on 'my computer' says 15G ???????
I cant get windows 2000 to show the partition (15G with XP on)
can anyone help as i badly need to get XP back
thankyou in advanced
Hello again,
Ive just reinstalled partition magic 7 and the drive with XP on was hidden, can anyone tell me how to make them duel boot, ive tried editing the boot.ini file but i always get an error message, Do i just make the drive active instead of none??????
Thankyou in advanced
This is just a shot in the dark, but maybe the NTFS version of XP is not backwards-compatible with that of 2000. :confused:
jonsagara: shooting in the dark is fun, so I'd say that both use NTFS5.
jeffersno1:
The boot.ini format for 2K/XP entries is
(If the %windir% is different, change it; change only one entry at a time so you can boot the other one if it goes wrong.)
HTH
jonsagara: shooting in the dark is fun, so I'd say that both use NTFS5.
Good. At least one of us knows what we're talking about. :)
realnowhereman:
ive just tried what you suggested but when the duel boot screen appeared the following error was displayed:
Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
please re-install a copy of the above file
my boot.ini file is:
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Win XP"
Do i have to change anything in the default section???
Thankyou in advanced:D
Originally posted by jeffersno1
duel boot screen
One ... two ... three ... four ... five ... six ... seven ... eight ... nine ... ten! <BANG> Aaaarrgh!
Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
please re-install a copy of the above file
Did it really say "<Windows 2000 root>"?
boot.ini file:
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Win XP"
Looks OK :confused: Perhaps wrong partition numbers or directories?
Do i have to change anything in the default section???
I don't think so.
Sorry, when the duel boot screen appeared,booting windows 2000 was ok, it only happened when attempting to boot XP.
i think i should do a repair on XP so that XP will sort out the duel boot maybe?
:p
What directory is XP installed in?
(Btw, if you haven't got the hint in my last post: duel is not quite the same as dual.)
WINDOWS:confused: :confused: :confused:
Oops ... then change this line
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Win XP"
to this:
1 C:Win2K NTFS Active Primary
1 F:WinXP NTFS None Primary
Originally posted by jeffersno1
From partition magic:
Disk Partition Type Status Pri/Log
1 C:Win2K NTFS Active Primary
1 F:WinXP NTFS None Primary
Shouldn't be the case, but perhaps the Win2K partition comes first after all ... this is unscientific, but try to change
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Win XP"
to
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Win XP". I have no great hope that this helps, but give it a try anyway.
got it sorted thanks very much for your help realnowhereman
i decided to delete the boot.ini files on both OS's and do a reinstall of XP and it seemed to work ok
Thanks again for your time
:)
Well, if you like to be crude about it :p
Even in Windoze reinstall should be the filnal resort ...