{"id":212,"date":"2004-10-21T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/windows-xp-wont-boot-after-windows-2000-installed\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:30:51","slug":"windows-xp-wont-boot-after-windows-2000-installed","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/windows-xp-wont-boot-after-windows-2000-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP Won&#8217;t Boot After Windows 2000 Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you install Windows 2000 after Windows XP and they&nbsp;are sharing the boot partition (i.e. C:) then you will receive an error message when trying to boot Windows XP.<br \/><br \/>Starting Windows...<br \/><strong>Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: &#92;WINDOWS&#92;SYSTEM32&#92;CONFIG&#92;SYSTEM<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/>You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows 2000 Setup using the original Setup floppy disk or CD-ROM.<br \/>Select 'R' at the first screen to start repair.<br \/><br \/>--OR-- You may receive:<br \/><br \/><strong>BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO<br \/>STOP 0x00000074<\/strong><br \/><br \/>To correct this, copy the Windows XP version of NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM to the root of the boot partition (i.e. C:&#92;).&nbsp; These two files need to replace the Windows 2000 versions.&nbsp; You can find these files in the I386 directory on the XP CD or (possibly) in the Windows XP partition.<br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you install Windows 2000 after Windows XP and they&nbsp;are sharing the boot partition (i.e. C:) then you will receive an error message when trying to boot Windows XP.Starting Windows&#8230;Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: &#92;WINDOWS&#92;SYSTEM32&#92;CONFIG&#92;SYSTEM.You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows 2000 Setup using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1782],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2146],"class_list":["post-212","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-nt-2k-xp-2003","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6133,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/212\/revisions\/6133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}