dual booting

ruz606 · February 28th, 2003, 10:49 PM

I am duel booting with me, advanced server and xp. I just loaded win 2000 pro and now I can't get into xp. All the other os's work fine. I tried the repairs that were on the site and they don't work. Me is on the c drive and xp on the d, 2000 is on the e drive and advanced server is on the f. They are all on there own partition but on the same hd. Anyone have any ideas?

KenKun · February 28th, 2003, 10:59 PM

This is a knows problem happens because of installing win2k *after* winXP .. win2k will replace NTLDR with its own one and it will make winXP inaccessable ..

The solution is simple, just copy NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM files from your winXP CD back to the root directory of your boot drive (C: drive).
The files that you have to replace are hidden and protected system files, you have to change an option in your Explorer`s File option to show hidden protected system files before you can view and replace them.

All the above can be done while you`re in winME or win2k.

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Edit> also check this from M$
Cannot Start Windows XP After You Install Windows 2000