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Cant boot XP Home with a XP/2000 dual boot

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Phedis

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Ok, I have this Dell that came with XP Home. I wanted to put 2000 on it for a certain program that requires Windows 2000. Well I used partition Magic to load 2000 onto a seperate partition. Everything worked fine when I was done, but when I went to access it today it gave me this message when I selected to boot up to XP. (Please note that I was trying to start up with Windows XP when I got this messege.) Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt. "\Windows\system32\config\systemd"

Now, I am able to boot up to Windows 2000 just fine on the logical partition, but not XP on the primary. Does anybody have any suggestions?!?!
 
Did you make both partitions active in P.M.? Since you installed 2000 last, that might be the only active partition. Enter PM and see what partitions are active. Did you install Boot Magic along with P.M.? If so, on what OS, and what file system is that OS running?
 
In dual boot, XP/2K...XP must be the last to be installed, since the files needed to boot are newer. You'll need to check your NTLDR and NTDETECT files. They need to be the XP version.
 
Originally posted by: yruffostsif
In dual boot, XP/2K...XP must be the last to be installed, since the files needed to boot are newer. You'll need to check your NTLDR and NTDETECT files. They need to be the XP version.
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True, but only if your not using a bootmanager. He's using Partition magic so in theory he can install in any order he want's. You might be on to something though if bootmajic wasn't installed his current boot.ini would be messed up.

 
Originally posted by: Phedis
Ok, I have this Dell that came with XP Home. I wanted to put 2000 on it for a certain program that requires Windows 2000. Well I used partition Magic to load 2000 onto a seperate partition. Everything worked fine when I was done, but when I went to access it today it gave me this message when I selected to boot up to XP. (Please note that I was trying to start up with Windows XP when I got this messege.) Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt. "\Windows\system32\config\systemd"

Now, I am able to boot up to Windows 2000 just fine on the logical partition, but not XP on the primary. Does anybody have any suggestions?!?!
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Which menu did you select XP from? If it was windows bootloader that would be the problem. If it was Boot-magic then hopefully it's just a setting you may have missed.

 
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