*Resolved* BIG PROBLEM - XP doesn't load after install of W2k

[Dude1]

Hello, I have a serious problem. I have 2 harddrives and on one I had Windows XP Pro, so I decided to install W2k on the OTHER harddrive. So I pop in the W2k boot disks, install it on the other harddrive, everything goes smoothly, and W2k loads without any problems. But than at the startup menu, where you choose which OS you want to use, I selected XP again, and for some odd reason, it thinks I'm selecting W2k and therefore gives an error saying that some file is missing! Well ofcourse a file is missing! Its XP, not W2k!

So can someone tell me what I did wrong and how to fix this?

Thanks.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

So you're in 2k right?

Check the boot.ini.

[Dude1]

Yes, I'm stuck in W2k right now lol

I searched for boot.ini on both drives and it came up with nothing:eek:

Is that a bad thing? lol

[mendhak]

C:/boot.ini

It's a hidden file. Enable the viewing of hidden files.
See if that makes a difference.

[Dude1]

Ok, I enabled hidden files, and boot.ini only showed on on drive C: (thats whre XP is installed) There isn't one on drive D: (where 2k is installed) So I just made a copy of the one on C and put it on drive D, but that didn't fix anything.

Here is how it looks:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

[mendhak]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q289022

[Dude1]

I still can't get it to work, that site gives example where there are 2 partitions, I have 2 disks, not partitians.

This is what I have:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect


Does anoyone knwo what the disk() and rdisk() stand for? Maybe I need to change those around since I have 2 disks.

[Dude1]

Never mind, fixed it. Dual booting from a newer OS to an older, you have to repair the newer OS, thats what I did, it works now.

[Pc_Madness]

Yar, you need to use the XP CD to recovery the MBR I do believe. :)