Multiboot problem

[Muse]

The last week I've set up a multiboot system in Win98SE, WinNT 4.0 SP6a and Win2000 SP2. I just discovered that NT is really confused and has a TON of registry entries referencing the Win2000 partition! This (or something involved with it) is evidently responsible for having trashed my Win2000 registry to the point that I had to restore a previous backup of Win2000 (I'm using Ghost at various stages). For instance, Add/Remove programs and the file search functions were inoperable in Win2000.

Has anyone seen this? Could it have to do with my having mapped drive letters in NT using the Disk Management drive mapping service?

At this point I'm thinking of restoring an early very basic version of NT, checking its registry to make sure there are no references to my G: (Win2000) partition as it's known in NT and going from there. I think the problems may have arrived when I downloaded and installed NT's SP 6a or IE6. If the same thing happens as I install SP 6a or IE6, I may try Ghosting my Win2000, formatting the Win2000 partition and doing my upgrades to NT and then restoring the Win2000 partition from my Ghost image file, but it seems to me that that kind of shell game shouldn't be necessary!

Thanks for any help/wisdom.

 

[Muse]

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[SUOrangeman]

What's your partition layout? I've had WinME, 2K, and XP (with a few other OSes) multi-booting happily for 6+ months now.

I have a small FAT16 C: drive (required for NT and any Win9x/ME to be happy together).

I then partitioned out space for XP, 2K, and ME in that order. Yet, I installed the OSes with ME first, followed by 2K, and XP last. Because I didn't want each OS to see the other OSes, I did have to play with the partitions. For instance, I may have made all of the partitions of the Linux variety, so they wouldn't get recognized until I needed them (and would then reformat them to the appropriate Windows format).

I was supposed to write up my adventures a long, long, long time ago for an FAQ. I have some notes written, but nothing polished.

Feel free to e-mail me, even if I take a while to get back to you.

-SUO