To be honest with you, I do things the other way around, ie. use DD for making the partitions and then a different bootmanager. I use GAG, I've...
Hi MC Sorry I thought I'd posted the answer in the last thread. After booting into w2k (or XP), do Start / Control Panel / System / Advanced...
Hi MC Thanks for all your time and patience with this problem. Took me a while to suss it out, but finally cracked it, got xp back, problem...
Hi MC This is what I've done so far; I copied the ntldr and ntdetect.com from a different computer and replaced them in the xp partition, to...
>Do you have another XP installation (on another computer) that you can copy the ntldr and ntdetect.com files from and put >them on the XP...
Hi MC, Sorry its taken so long to get back; I was booked into hospital for a quick op. >Are you getting any error message(s) when you try...
Hi MC Well I'm really stumped now, I tried everything you suggested in your last post and I still can't get xp to boot. Best regards Tony
Hi MC Right back up and running, one off these days I'll learn to leave things alone! Anyway I've not reinstalled DD yet on the win2000...
>Try the attached file in place of the boot.ini file in the afa15fc4 sub-folder and see if it works (rename it to boot.ini, of >course). I've...
>I'm attaching a slightly modifed BOOTWIZ.OSS file that does not have the Windows 2000 OS as a "Hidden" OS and isn't using >Force Hiding. No...
Hi MC Made the changes and still no joy. The first screen is still coming up with something about invalid boot.ini. The next screen is still...
>The BOOTWIZ.OSS file shows the XP partition as the Active (booting) partition. This doesn't agree with the Windows 2000 >Disk Management...
Hi Mudcrab >Can you attach the BOOTWIZ.OSS file to a post? It's in the hidden BOOTWIZ folder on the partition in which OSS was >installed. Make...
>It it working since the reinstallation? 'Fraid not..when I try to boot xp the first screen is so fast it's difficult to read it all, but it...
Hi Mudcrab Many thanks for your reply >What build of OSS are you using? Ver 10 Built 2,007 >Did you use "Force Hiding" on the XP...
Hi guys Sorry to bother you all with this. I've been using Acronis for a couple of years now and I've been dual booting Win98se and Win2000...
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