NT4 NTLDR versus 2K NTLDR Question

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Does anyone know of a good reason why I can't replace NT4's ntldr with W2K's ntldr?

Run SP6a on an NT4 HD > 8G and PC has the "Disk I/O" error and/or "NTOSKRNL.Exe missing" error etc. I understand why it is an issue and I can fix the problem with ERD Cmdr (98% of the time) but it is becoming annoying. I have found that if I replace the NT4 ntldr with W2K's ntldr and then do SP6a, it doesn't crash. Please note that if I switch it back, even though it doesn't crash, it will now crash when using NT4's ntldr (and I can fix that). But I'm lazy.

So - Does anyone know of a good reason why I can't replace NT4's ntldr with W2K's ntldr?

Thanks in advance
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are you replacing ntdetect.com too? I've got several NT installations using either 2k or Xp 'boot sectors' (ie, ntldr & ntdetect.com) - but I've never replaced just ntldr, so don't know how that behaves.

 

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Well I hadn't considered it but if it is a better way to do it than I would use it.
So you haven't had anything stop working or go goofy with 2K's ntldr & ntdetect as the only files replaced on a NT4 workstation?
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[wolluf]

No, nothing odd (just get 2k or XP 'white bar' at start up, and blue info screen uses a different font, but no problems).

 

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Thanks muchly, appreciate the advice