First post, by bakemono
I borrowed an HDD from a system with Win7 installed to try out a motherboard I recently acquired. Win7 detected the new hardware and came up fine. I also wanted to take another crack at running Win2000 on it, but without using a separate drive for it because the board only has SATA ports, no IDE, and I have no spare SATA drives. I also don't want to blow up the Win7 install, since it came from a refurb system which was sold without installation media. So I tried to add Win2000 as an additional option on the Win7 HDD:
bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d "Previous version of windows"
bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=C:
bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr
bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast
That creates a menu option. But when attempting to boot it says:
invalid boot.ini
booting from \WINNT
NTDETECT failed
Anybody know what causes this? Obviously the boot.ini and ntdetect.com files have been put in C:\ yet it seems like NTLDR can't read the disk for some reason.
Maybe I'll just have to create a separate partition, but it would be nice to understand the problem so I can avoid it in the future. When I do a web search I get a bunch of results saying "boot from CD/DVD and go to the recovery console and do blah blah blah" but no explanation as to what causes the error.
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