NT to XP?

[Die Hard]

This is actually a question from a friend of mine:

I was running nt and tried to insatll xp.

When i reboot it gives you an option to run nt or xp?
If I choose to run nt the screen goes blank. If i choose xp it asks the same question again and so on?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Caged Anger]

sounds like the boot file didn't get written properly

i believe it can be fixed through the recovery console

[(Villains) Fragjunky]

dont listen to me today i am in stupid mode!!!!

[Caged Anger]

erm, he just said he can't boot the system...

[(Villains) Fragjunky]

lol sry
my head is up my .... today

[Death Engineer]

Dual booting NT and XP.... that's a new one for me. Sounds like it's time for a repair install or something. Personally, I would just lose the NT partition. That OS is soooo last century.

[Die Hard]

Well thats the point, he wants to lose NT and have XP instead but he keeps having the problem described above?

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

I think you need to go into your bios and set where to boot from, ie your C drive or cd/dvd drive.
Oh, and make sure the system has enough memory to be running XP. :)

[ME BIGGD01]

Sounds to me that the boot.ini file is corrupt.

A quick fix is pull the drive out and put it into another system to inspect files and structure. Does it have a winnt foler or a windows folder.

You can delete one of the lines in the boot.ini file that relates to nt.

You can also copy a boot.ini file onto the drive after renaming the old one boot.old.

You need to inspect this so you can see where it is loading from.

I am curious though this is winxp pro upgrade correct?

[Die Hard]

I don't know sorry BIGGS. I'll talk to him tonight and find out how far he has got. I know he looks here to see what you guys have come up with.

Thanks everyone for your help :thumbs: