dual boot xp64 and 2000

[Walrusim]

Hello, i was wondering if you guys could help me out, i'm kind of a novice at this i've installed XP64 on my computer but am having some problems with my video editing software capturing video and audio so i wanted to dual boot windows 2000 onto this machine. I know the standard way of doing this is to install 2000 first then XP but is there anyway that i can install 2000 after i have already installed XP64?

thanks

 

[Walrusim]

anyone?

 

[TGS]

You should just be able to boot from the W2K cd. It may use the W2K boot.ini which may not have th XP64 references.

If you install without formatting W2K, boot to the W2K partition and copy the XP64 boot.ini entry to the W2K boot.ini file. You should be able to boot using the boot.ini from the W2K install, and the manually added XP64 entry should allow you to access that OS without issue.

 

[fuzzynavel]

I would have thought that win2k would have to be installed first....don't think win2k will boot from a secondary or tertiary partition whereas XP will boot from any partition I believe!

 

[TGS]

It doesn't matter what partition on what volume you install from. Primary or Logical partitions can house the OS files. The important part about dual booting is the bootloaders configuration file. IE Grubs /boot/grub/grub.conf or NTLDRs boot.ini. Once those files are properly configured you will be able to boot into which ever operating system has been installed.

As long as you don't format the first OS partition the boot.ini should remain, so that you can copy the boot string into whichever partition you want to make active.

If you really shouldn't matter if you are booting from the XP or XP64 partitions, as the modified boot.ini will allow you to access both partitions/OSes.

 

[Walrusim]

So i tried to install windows 2000 from the CD, and installed it to my second hard drive (D:\) however after all the files were copied over and the computer restarted, windows XP 64 booted up and there was no sign of 2000. am i doing something wrong, do i need to edit the boot.ini so that i can finish the install process for 2000?

thanks

 

[TGS]

You need to add the entry in your (typical location) C:\boot.ini for the XP information.

Post it here, although it should be the same exact line (if it's on the same physical disk, but a seperate partition) and add one to the partition number for each drive letter that is occupied by a hard disk drive partition(not the CD/DVD-rom)

IE change partition from partition(1) to partition(2) if your hard drive partitions go from C:\ to E:\, or partition(3) if it goes C:\ D:\ E:

Thought you can just post your boot.ini and a screenshot of your disk management screen.

Edit: Also, what partition drive letter did you install the W2K on?

 

[Walrusim]

its on a second physical hard disk with drive letter D:
what would the boot.ini line look like?

 

[TGS]

If your c:\boot.ini has this line:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition" /fastdetect

You should just add the line under it:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

 

[Walrusim]

i tried the partion(2) it did not work. however
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
did find something however then it told me that the ntoskrnl.exe was corrupt and that i needed to reinstall that.
when i run the windows 2000 installation, windows 2000 requires that i restart the computer to finishe the installation however it never gets a change to finishe the installation.

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: Walrusim
i tried the partion(2) it did not work. however
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
did find something however then it told me that the ntoskrnl.exe was corrupt and that i needed to reinstall that.
when i run the windows 2000 installation, windows 2000 requires that i restart the computer to finishe the installation however it never gets a change to finishe the installation.

Oh man are you running a DFI or any other NF4 mobos by chance, I know that problem from the latest and last NF based I will ever use ( since I am going crossfire anyway ), you have to disable all USB devices in your mobo , and basically disable eveything you can disable and install and get the most up to date SATA drivers if you are runnning any SATA controllers. that fixed the problem for me but I still faced some out of this world Win2k issues and DFI support refused to answer my question and also refused to refund me my money, those A$$WIPES thats why I sold my DFI ut ultra-D dual x16 lanparty and opted for the VIA based soltek I have right now K9890-pro much cheaper and much more stable. do yourself a favoure and throw that NF4 away I used to love my ABIT AN7 NF2 ultra 400 mobo, I think it was the best to ever be released, but now NF chipsets took a nosedive for some reason.