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October 18, 2000 at 11:06 PM
tech84

NT Workstation 4.0/Win2K Pro dual boot

by tech84 . Updated 25 years, 5 months ago

This is odd… I’ve got NT W/S installed on my laptop in the first two partitions. I have 8GB of free space, and want to install Win2K Pro in a third partition. Any method I use to install it, either booting from the CD or starting the install from within NT W/S, as soon as the machine reboots, I am no longer able to boot into NT W/S. When I select NT W/S at the boot menu, it looks good all the way through kernel initialization. The blue screen comes and goes, but when I get to the boot screen, the background and bitmap are there, and I can move the mouse around, but there’s no logon banner. I can get no further from here without powering down. I tried a repair with the NT W/S CD, and it told me that the operating system had been altered by a newer version, and labels the installation unrepairable. How could that be?! I would think that the only system files that changed would be boot.ini, NTLDR, and maybe ntoskrnl.exe. Is this true? I’ve installed Win2K Pro RC2 on a box running NT W/S at home several times w/o any problems. It dual boots just fine. Is there something different with the OEM version of Win2K Pro? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

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