Leon2003 Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 Hi, I have two partitons. One has Windows XP Home Editon, the other one has Longhorn 4051 Beta. Two days ago, I've formatted and overwritten Longhorn 4051 with Windows 2000. After I finished installing Windows 2000 and booted up, but I could only log into Windows 2000. I got a black screen when I chose Windows XP to log in.I checked my boot.ini, it seems fine. Can anyone help me out here, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerlinTheWizard Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 Unless you installed 2000 and XP both on primary partitions invisible to each other, they share a common "boot loader" (ntldr). This is why you always have to install the more recent version AFTER the older one. The Windows 2000 boot loader is not able to boot Windows XP, and when you re-installed 2000, it overwrote the newer boot loader. Anyway, I think this is the problem.Try fixing the problem by booting on the Windows XP CD and "repairing" the XP install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 You could probably extract the necessary files off the CD...http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_2k.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
likuidkewl Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 Boot with your XP cd and type fix MBR at the command prompt. Done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizzly_hair Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 i donot think so ,i think ,u should use recovery console from xp cd and type "fixboot" command!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidSage Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 Copy XP's ntdetect.com and ntldr over to the root of the 2000 partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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