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dual boot ME & XP
I have a computer set up to dual boot ME or XP. The ME
hard drive (primary) had to be replaced, and I had to reinstall the system. Is there any way to set it up to dual boot without having to re install XP also? |
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Assuming from your posting that XP is on the slave drive then boot from the
XP CD and do a repair install overtop of the exisitng, that will redo the dual-boot and save all the XP stuff. (Of course, if you've upgraded to SP2 and the CD is SP1 or original then this won't work; things will revert from SP2 back to whatever version is on the CD.) "DWS" wrote in message ... I have a computer set up to dual boot ME or XP. The ME hard drive (primary) had to be replaced, and I had to reinstall the system. Is there any way to set it up to dual boot without having to re install XP also? |
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"DWS" wrote in message
... I have a computer set up to dual boot ME or XP. The ME hard drive (primary) had to be replaced, and I had to reinstall the system. Is there any way to set it up to dual boot without having to re install XP also? Shouldn't be necessary to reinstall XP - the best place to ask this question is in an XP newsgroup (to whic I've cross-posted this response, so hang around!) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Jerry" wrote in message ... Assuming from your posting that XP is on the slave drive then boot from the XP CD and do a repair install overtop of the exisitng, that will redo the dual-boot and save all the XP stuff. (Of course, if you've upgraded to SP2 and the CD is SP1 or original then this won't work; things will revert from SP2 back to whatever version is on the CD.) |
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Hi,
Boot the WinXP CD, load the Recovery Console (see below). From the command prompt run fixboot. What happened is that you overwrote the NT bootloader with 9x code, but it's easy to fix. HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP [Q307654] http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654 -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... "DWS" wrote in message ... I have a computer set up to dual boot ME or XP. The ME hard drive (primary) had to be replaced, and I had to reinstall the system. Is there any way to set it up to dual boot without having to re install XP also? Shouldn't be necessary to reinstall XP - the best place to ask this question is in an XP newsgroup (to whic I've cross-posted this response, so hang around!) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Jerry" wrote in message ... Assuming from your posting that XP is on the slave drive then boot from the XP CD and do a repair install overtop of the exisitng, that will redo the dual-boot and save all the XP stuff. (Of course, if you've upgraded to SP2 and the CD is SP1 or original then this won't work; things will revert from SP2 back to whatever version is on the CD.) |
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Thanks, Rick - I had a feeling that was probably the solution, but wanted
confirmation before I put my neck on the block! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Boot the WinXP CD, load the Recovery Console (see below). From the command prompt run fixboot. What happened is that you overwrote the NT bootloader with 9x code, but it's easy to fix. HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP [Q307654] http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654 -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org |
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I tried the recovery console - it wants to write to "D:"
which is the XP drive - I boot from the "C:" drive. I did it anyway, but the computer still boots directly into ME. I tried "fixboot" (it only recognized the XP drive - gave one choice - I selected it. Maybe that was when I tried bootcfg) Did I miss something or do it wrong? DWS -----Original Message----- Hi, Boot the WinXP CD, load the Recovery Console (see below). From the command prompt run fixboot. What happened is that you overwrote the NT bootloader with 9x code, but it's easy to fix. HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP [Q307654] http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654 -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... "DWS" wrote in message ... I have a computer set up to dual boot ME or XP. The ME hard drive (primary) had to be replaced, and I had to reinstall the system. Is there any way to set it up to dual boot without having to re install XP also? Shouldn't be necessary to reinstall XP - the best place to ask this question is in an XP newsgroup (to whic I've cross- posted this response, so hang around!) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Jerry" wrote in message ... Assuming from your posting that XP is on the slave drive then boot from the XP CD and do a repair install overtop of the exisitng, that will redo the dual-boot and save all the XP stuff. (Of course, if you've upgraded to SP2 and the CD is SP1 or original then this won't work; things will revert from SP2 back to whatever version is on the CD.) . |
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Finally "gave up" and am 'repairing' XP
Thanks for all the help DWS -----Original Message----- Hi, Boot the WinXP CD, load the Recovery Console (see below). From the command prompt run fixboot. What happened is that you overwrote the NT bootloader with 9x code, but it's easy to fix. HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP [Q307654] http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654 -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... "DWS" wrote in message ... I have a computer set up to dual boot ME or XP. The ME hard drive (primary) had to be replaced, and I had to reinstall the system. Is there any way to set it up to dual boot without having to re install XP also? Shouldn't be necessary to reinstall XP - the best place to ask this question is in an XP newsgroup (to whic I've cross- posted this response, so hang around!) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Jerry" wrote in message ... Assuming from your posting that XP is on the slave drive then boot from the XP CD and do a repair install overtop of the exisitng, that will redo the dual-boot and save all the XP stuff. (Of course, if you've upgraded to SP2 and the CD is SP1 or original then this won't work; things will revert from SP2 back to whatever version is on the CD.) . |
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