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Triple Boot 98/2000/Xp troubles
Name: B Date: November 13, 2005 at 13:49:52 Pacific OS: Windows Xp sp 1 CPU/Ram: 1.7 Ghz, 1.5 Gb Ram
Comment:
hi... i'm having trouble with a particular triple boot system at my school... its been loaded with 98/2000/Xp on a pretty old system (550 mhz/128 Ram)...
I can boot into 98 partition fine... but the moment i suppress the return key at the boot loader menu with either 2000 or Xp selected it goes right back through post and then onto the boot loader menu again...
just so you know i have already rebuilt the boot.ini by going off another triple boot system... didn't do the trick... and i also replaced Ntldr already thinking maybe it had become corrupted...
anybody have any ideas? i'm lost with this one right now... thank you for your time...
Name: B Date: November 13, 2005 at 13:58:52 Pacific
Reply:
oops... one more thing i tried and forgot to add...
i did get into advanced boot options via the boot loader menu and there was an added option at the bottom to "turn of Automatic Restart"... which is something i had thought of, wanted to try, couldn't get into 2000/Xp, lol... somehow it was there... i selected it... and it didn't work either...
still stuck in the infinate loop when i select 2000 or Xp... thanks again...
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Response Number 2
Name: TopFarmer Date: November 13, 2005 at 14:40:43 Pacific
Reply:
info needed: 1)# of hdd , # of partitions ? 2)is XP & 2000 FAT32 or NTFS file system ? 2)post containt of boot.in file
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: November 13, 2005 at 15:10:45 Pacific
Reply:
Did it ever work previously on this machine?
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