XP Home, XP Pro x64 Dual Boot single SATA drive

[Guest PaulTMaack]

I had Home installed, and i installed pro 64, and i can get it to boot into

home, but when i try to boot into 64, it gives me that ntoskrnl.exe error

everyone knows about. i checked the boot.ini, and it said both boot paths

were cool, but i changed the x64 boot path to scsi(0) instead of multi(0) for

a second, saved it, and checked boot paths again. it said neither of them

were valid now, so i changed it back, and checked. it said neither were valid.

 

At this point, i figured i was screwed, so i just restarted the computer,

and was able to log into 64 (yay) but then i updated to SP2, and restarted,

and again i get the ntoskrnl.exe error. any ideas what i should do?

 

I have WinXPHESP2 installed on first partition, and WinXPProx64 installed on

second partition. my boot.ini looks like this:

 

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home

Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows X64"

/noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

 

and it's on the first partition (the xp home).

 

What am i doing wrong?

[Guest Charlie Russel - MVP]

Re: XP Home, XP Pro x64 Dual Boot single SATA drive

 

When you installed SP2, I suspect it overwrote critical files in the boot.

See http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64/archive/2005/11/21/76180.aspx. You'll

want to follow the steps I give for what to do when they're in the wrong

order.

 

One thing you do NOT want to do is muck around with boot.ini. If you need to

change boot.ini, you'll want to let the bootcfg do the dirty work.

 

--

Charlie.

http://msmvps.com/xperts64

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

 

 

"PaulTMaack" <PaulTMaack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I had Home installed, and i installed pro 64, and i can get it to boot into

> home, but when i try to boot into 64, it gives me that ntoskrnl.exe error

> everyone knows about. i checked the boot.ini, and it said both boot paths

> were cool, but i changed the x64 boot path to scsi(0) instead of multi(0)

> for

> a second, saved it, and checked boot paths again. it said neither of them

> were valid now, so i changed it back, and checked. it said neither were

> valid.

>

> At this point, i figured i was screwed, so i just restarted the computer,

> and was able to log into 64 (yay) but then i updated to SP2, and

> restarted,

> and again i get the ntoskrnl.exe error. any ideas what i should do?

>

> I have WinXPHESP2 installed on first partition, and WinXPProx64 installed

> on

> second partition. my boot.ini looks like this:

>

> [boot loader]

> timeout=30

> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

> [operating systems]

> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home

> Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows X64"

> /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

>

> and it's on the first partition (the xp home).

>

> What am i doing wrong?