Windows 2000 won't Boot after Installing XP

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I recently Upgraded from W2000 Sp3 to XP Pro. The first time I booted into
Xp, I got a stop error with BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO. A search
turned up article 283433 which told me to copy NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM
from \i386 on the XP CD, but this did not solve the issue, as I got another
stop error, but it went by too quickly for me to read it.

After a lot more searching, I re-installed XP over itself, and the XP
problem went away.

However, now I get the other message shown in 283433 (Windows 2000 could not
start because the following is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.

I checked NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM, and both are the correct XP versions. I
cannot find anything when I search for the text in my subject line, above:
only the reverse.

I have WinXPSP1, Win2000SP3, and Win2000SP4, all in separate partitions.

Has anyone a solution?

Thanks,

Britt Dickson

 

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Hi Britt,

If you are receiving that error in the XP partition, have a look at this
MSKB article, "How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents
Windows XP from starting":
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=307545



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Britt Dickson" <Olivia_DNOSPAM@msn.com> wrote in message
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> I recently Upgraded from W2000 Sp3 to XP Pro. The first time I booted into
> Xp, I got a stop error with BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO. A search
> turned up article 283433 which told me to copy NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM
> from \i386 on the XP CD, but this did not solve the issue, as I got
another
> stop error, but it went by too quickly for me to read it.
>
> After a lot more searching, I re-installed XP over itself, and the XP
> problem went away.
>
> However, now I get the other message shown in 283433 (Windows 2000 could
not
> start because the following is missing or corrupt:
> \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.
>
> I checked NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM, and both are the correct XP versions. I
> cannot find anything when I search for the text in my subject line, above:
> only the reverse.
>
> I have WinXPSP1, Win2000SP3, and Win2000SP4, all in separate partitions.
>
> Has anyone a solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Britt Dickson
>
>
>
>

 

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Hi Patti,

Thanks for the response, but it's Windows 2000 that won't boot, and if
you are saying the same fix will work on W2000 I have to tell you that
the chances of a corrupted registry are next to none. Both of my 'extra'
W2000's were working fine, and I had just added SP4 to the first one
when I did the upgrade on my 'Master' install.

???

Britt Dickson



"Patti MacLeod" <pam120@nospamshaw.ca> wrote in message
news:uHrW3oqoEHA.1988@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| Hi Britt,
|
| If you are receiving that error in the XP partition, have a look at this
| MSKB article, "How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents
| Windows XP from starting":
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=307545
|
|
|
| Regards,
|
| --
| Patti MacLeod
| Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
|
| "Britt Dickson" <Olivia_DNOSPAM@msn.com> wrote in message
| news:e$%235d7ooEHA.2864@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| > I recently Upgraded from W2000 Sp3 to XP Pro. The first time I booted into
| > Xp, I got a stop error with BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO. A search
| > turned up article 283433 which told me to copy NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM
| > from \i386 on the XP CD, but this did not solve the issue, as I got
| another
| > stop error, but it went by too quickly for me to read it.
| >
| > After a lot more searching, I re-installed XP over itself, and the XP
| > problem went away.
| >
| > However, now I get the other message shown in 283433 (Windows 2000 could
| not
| > start because the following is missing or corrupt:
| > \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.
| >
| > I checked NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM, and both are the correct XP versions. I
| > cannot find anything when I search for the text in my subject line, above:
| > only the reverse.
| >
| > I have WinXPSP1, Win2000SP3, and Win2000SP4, all in separate partitions.
| >
| > Has anyone a solution?
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > Britt Dickson
| >
| >
| >
| >
|
|