Thanks Rick and Tom

[JayPeterman]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:52:30 -0700, "Tom Porterfield"
> wrote:

>JayPeterman wrote:
>
>> Good Evening,
>>
>> I installed a second hard drive and installed Windows 2000 on it. The
>> main drive (C) has XP Pro.
>>
>> I uninstalled the drive with 2000 on it to install in another computer
>> (this is where the stupid operator came in).
>>
>> Now when I boot to the first computer I get a choice of which OS to
>> boot to. It does not matter which I select 2000 or XP I get an error
>> message that it cannot boot to 2000 because a file is missing. In
>> reality the entire drive is missing. I tried to get into Safe Mode but
>> I get the same error. I tried the XP install CD but when I go to the
>> repair console and enter my password it gives me a C: prompt and just
>> sits there.
>>
>> Is there anyway I can get to XP without reformatting, reinstalling,
>> etc.?
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>
>At the recovery console use the extract command to extract ntldr and
>ntdetect.com from your XP CD and put them back in the root of your C
>drive. What happened is the Windows 2000 install overwrote those files
>with its own versions, causing XP to no longer boot.

I'll give it a shot.