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Windows Server Forum / Windows 2000 / Setup / March 2008Moving Win 2000 to a partition on a Win XP computer
Problem: Windows 2000 Pro (being set into a dual boot with Windows XP) will not fully login after placing the image created with Norton Ghost from another machine. It will accept the user name and password then the login screen goes away taking the screen to a blank desktop. After about two minutes a screen comes up that says "saving your settings" then we are returned to the user name and password screen. Windows XP Pro comes up with no trouble. Windows XP was a pre-installed image from Dell. Windows 2000 Pro has been running on another machine for five plus years. We resized the partitions with Partition Magic to mimic the old Windows 2000 partition structure. This scenario happens similarly on two different machines with different drive partitioning. Please advise! This article should sort it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249321  SignatureRegards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect > Problem: > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Please advise! >This article should sort it. > >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249321 Thank you, Dave! We will try to change the boot partition drive letter with Partition Magic, of whatever ... Fortunately, on one of the computers it has been not C but D - it might make it easier :) H. You're welcome. SignatureRegards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect > Thank you, Dave! > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > H. > You're welcome. I renamed the boot drive for Win2000 to D (as it had been on the original machine) and nothing happened - after accepting the password, the system waited for a few minutes with a blue screen and the mouse cursor and then returned to the logon screen. Now I am planning to start the Task Manager with CTRL/ALT/DEL after entering the password and then attempting to run Windows Explorer, which I hope will give the Desktop. H. How did you change it? That won't help since you can not logon. It's either the drive letter or the drive permissions. You'll want to follow the steps in this article. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/ SignatureRegards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect > I renamed the boot drive for Win2000 to D (as it had been on the original > machine) and nothing happened - after accepting the password, the system [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > H. Unless the image was from an identical PC/same hardware the its most unlikely that win2k will boot anyway, without a repair installation, and I'm not sure what that would do to winxp & the dual option >>This article should sort it. >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > H. > Unless the image was from an identical PC/same hardware the its most > unlikely that win2k will boot anyway, without a repair installation, and I'm > not sure what that would do to winxp & the dual option Why shall it not boot? I anticipate an issue with some drivers but why will Windows Explorer not start in this case to display the Desktop? H. Because your origonal installation was set up with a different chipset drivers and probably other hardware drivers, eg video at the very least http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824125 >> Unless the image was from an identical PC/same hardware the its most >> unlikely that win2k will boot anyway, without a repair installation, and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > H. |
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