I’m trying to set up a dual boot system with Windows 2000 Pro SP4 and XP Home SP2, but it won’t work.
Win 2k is installed on disk 0 partition 1 and works fine. Disk 0 partition 2 is a newly formatted partition for XP.
When I install XP it replaces the Win 2k boot.ini and ntldr. As I understand things, XP won’t boot with Win 2k’s ntldr but Win 2k should be able to boot with XP’s ntldr.
After installing XP I get a boot menu with XP Home as the first entry and Win 2k as the second entry.
XP loads fine and runs perfectly. However if I try and load Win 2k I get an error saying \WINNT\System32\System is missing or corrupt. If I replace the XP ntldr with a backup of the Win2k ntldr then Win 2k boots fine but XP won’t.
Everything I’ve read on the Internet says this setup should work and I can’t find any information on this particular problem.
I was hoping ultimately to have a multiboot system with Win 2k, XP and Vista, but if I can’t get past this problem it’s not going to happen.
If anyone has a solution for this issue I would be grateful to hear from them.
Thanks in advance
Richard
