NT4/W2K Dual Boot, NT4 hangs

[mpg]

Hi

I have an IBM Thinkpad 390x running NT40 SP6a. NT4 is on C: (2mb FAT). There is also is D: (4mb NTFS) and E: 4mb NTFS). I installed Windows 2000 on E: and it works fine. However, if I select my old NT4 installation from the boot manager, it seems to start up OK (except that the blue screen with the dots seems to be at a different resolution than before).

When it gets to the ctrl-alt-del banner screen, I can bring up a login prompt. I can enter a name and password but then everything goes very slow and the login never completes - effectively it hangs at this point but in fact it is still running very very slowly. I one left it once for two hours and it was only just beginning to paint the desktop.

I have tried all sorts of logins (domain, local, with or without LAN adapter), same symptoms. It is also the same booting in safe mode. I removed all references to starting virus check software in the NT installation and this did not help.

Does anyone have any clues as to what is going on?

Thanks

 

[Guest_imported]

Unfortunately, I am having the exact same problem. Nice to know I am not alone. My solution right now is to use a boot floppy i created using bootpart sometime ago. It seems to be the problem of the NTLDR.