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I have an Abit AN7 system with integrated SATA controller. C: drive
with the Win2kSP4 installation is a SATA drive. I added an IDE drive
and installed Win2K on it originally in a dual boot configuration. That
worked well until this second installation became corrupt. I installed
WinXP to this second drive, selecting the delete partition and quick
format options. Afterwards, the C:boot.ini shows both the original
Win2k and the new WinXP boot options and WinXP boots and operates fine
on drive D:, but now the Win2k bootup reports, "Windows 2000 could not
start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM". This occurs immediately after
selecting that boot option, not after the horizontal progress bar
appears like when this file is really corrupt. Replacing the reg hives
from a backup set doesn't change anything either. This appears to be a
boot file problem rather than a registry problem. It appears the WinXP
install overwrote the Win2K ntldr and ntdetect.com files on C: drive, as
it's supposed to (dates and filesize match the CD files). I'm not sure
what else gets overwritten. I'm at a loss. Ideas?
Scott
I have an Abit AN7 system with integrated SATA controller. C: drive
with the Win2kSP4 installation is a SATA drive. I added an IDE drive
and installed Win2K on it originally in a dual boot configuration. That
worked well until this second installation became corrupt. I installed
WinXP to this second drive, selecting the delete partition and quick
format options. Afterwards, the C:boot.ini shows both the original
Win2k and the new WinXP boot options and WinXP boots and operates fine
on drive D:, but now the Win2k bootup reports, "Windows 2000 could not
start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM". This occurs immediately after
selecting that boot option, not after the horizontal progress bar
appears like when this file is really corrupt. Replacing the reg hives
from a backup set doesn't change anything either. This appears to be a
boot file problem rather than a registry problem. It appears the WinXP
install overwrote the Win2K ntldr and ntdetect.com files on C: drive, as
it's supposed to (dates and filesize match the CD files). I'm not sure
what else gets overwritten. I'm at a loss. Ideas?
Scott