stilllwaiting
Programmer
Hi,
I'm trying to setup my system to dual boot Win XP and Win 2000 for testing purposes on a particular project I'm working on.
I've set up a dual boot system multiple times in the past with no problem, but for some reason, this one's giving me trouble.
I followed all the rules, I created a partition each for two separate hard drives. I formatted both with NTFS. Installed Win 2000 Pro first, configured it, then installed Win XP on the other hard drive.
Now, when I try to boot, XP comes up fine and dandy, but when I try to boot 2000, I get a long error message, the core of which seems to be:
Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
When I boot using the XP cd and use the recovery console it asks me which OS I want to boot to, and lets me log into either, so the 2000 system is out there and it's working, it just won't boot.
My boot.ini file reads as follows:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
Which is how I've always had it set up before for a dual boot system, so I'm completely baffled.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
I'm trying to setup my system to dual boot Win XP and Win 2000 for testing purposes on a particular project I'm working on.
I've set up a dual boot system multiple times in the past with no problem, but for some reason, this one's giving me trouble.
I followed all the rules, I created a partition each for two separate hard drives. I formatted both with NTFS. Installed Win 2000 Pro first, configured it, then installed Win XP on the other hard drive.
Now, when I try to boot, XP comes up fine and dandy, but when I try to boot 2000, I get a long error message, the core of which seems to be:
Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
When I boot using the XP cd and use the recovery console it asks me which OS I want to boot to, and lets me log into either, so the 2000 system is out there and it's working, it just won't boot.
My boot.ini file reads as follows:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
Which is how I've always had it set up before for a dual boot system, so I'm completely baffled.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.