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Win XP and ME conflict

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by hquist

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I have Win ME on partition 1 and XP on partition 2. My XP refuses to start and gives the error message " Disk error restarting installation". This keeps recurring, because I do not want to format the hard drive,What do I do? The startup menu takes over and times out in 2 seconds.

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by emorse

You can recover your XP session by hitting the F8 key upon startup, and selecting the Admin Command Prompt (something like that) There will then be a "fix boot" command you can run that should repair your XP boot. However, at that point, you will be unable to boot into ME. I have been unsuccessful at dual booting ME and XP.
Good luck
-Eli

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