I have a 60G drive which I partitioned into 3 seprate drives using Partition Magic 7.0 My first partition was a C: running Win XP pro on it and then I made a D: & a E: Well I installed the Windows 2000 to the D: (Secound Partition) and I have lost all boot to XP. Have tried everything. Messed around with the ntldr & ntdetect files, no luck. Screwed around with the boot.ini file, still can't boot XP. Also have tried the XP restore option, and the darn thing still won't work. What is up with this??? Will I ever get back into XP or what???

Boot off the WinXP CD and run the repair option.

When you installed W2k, it over wrote the XP version ntldr and ntdetect.com files. These could be copied back down to the c: drive off of the XP CD - they are in the i386 folder (uncompressed). There should be no need to run the fixmbr off of the XP repair console as you can still boot W2k. Having a multi boot system myself, I usually make a copy of the XP version of the files right on the C: drive. Then when I install W2k (Pro, Server, ADV Server or SBS) it is a simple matter to copy over the W2k versions with the XP versions. With one HDD, your boot.ini would look something like this: [boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINdows [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="W2k Pro" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP Pro" /fastdetect

Reinstall everything, starting with Win2k. Then install XP. XP will see the Win2k partition and put it in the boot menu.