m.nuttall@??? wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry for sticking a windows problem in here but i have tried all the windows
> email groups i am on and so I am hoping for a different perspectice to solve
> this problem.
>
> I have been quad (w2k,xp suse and syllable )booting windows 2000 and windows xp
> professional for 3 years but in the last 3 days
> it decided to not work.
>
> The problem I narrowed down to the ntldr (ntloader) file. If i take
> the windows 2000 ntldr created by a repair install and then back it up. Then
> repair install xp pro and backup the Xntldr file. I have discovered that i can
> get either os to boot up by restoring its own version of the ntldr file.
>
> I however cannot have one ntldr file boot both systems. ie it only boots
> with its own ntldr file.
>
> I would expect windows 2000 ntldr to not boot xp pro but ntldr for xp
> pro has in the past booted both systems until now.
Yes, ntldr should be able to boot anything, including Linux. Do both
W2000 and WXP have the same idea of which partition is C: ? And what's
in C:\boot.ini
cheers
Chris
>
> Any ideas how i can solve this problem?
> Maybe by bypassing ntldr altogether?
>
> thanks for your time
>
> Martin N
>
>
>
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