Hi,

I have partitioned my hard drive. I installed Win2K on one partition and WinXP on the other. When I restart, I have a choice of either OS When I start Win2K, everything seen to work well, but when I try to start up with WinXP, it give me this message "Windows2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupted \windows\system32\config\systemd".  

I consulted the MS knowledge base, It wasn't any help. PERHAPS some of you can help.

Thank you in advance.

Richard.Hi MAC,

Thanks for the quick answer. My HD has 80G, I partitioned a third of it as C drive which is where I installed WinXP and 2 third of it as D drive which is where Win2K installled.  Do you think that's the problem?

BTW, oth OSs are Pro, not te Home version.

I guess I don't know enough partition, when I install WinXP, I just folllowed the instruction oof the XP cd to make the partition as MS knowledge base suggested,
did I do it WRONG? I don't undersxtand what this First Logical, Second Logical... mean? What do they mean?  :-?

How do I make a copy oof the boot.ini file?

Thanks again.  


Richard.Hi Mac,

OK,  I will start all over again. Back to the drawing board.  

I will bug you again if you don't mind.  

Richard.Hey Mac,

You were right. I switched  the OS with Win2k first and XP on the second partition, now it works beautifully.  

Thank you so much for the help.

Richard.   Thanks for taking the time to let EVERYONE know this resolved your issue.  Oh, btw, "What did the MS KB Article suggest you do? "

Well, it guilded me through the partition process with WinXP but it didn't mention that the OLDER OS should be in the  first partition.  

Richard.