XP Pro and Home Dual-Boot

#1 PaTiNsAnE

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 05:38 AM

Hello Fellow Techies,

I have a slight problem. Here we go. I had Windows XP Home :x , and (well still have) I made a new partition on my 40gig drive and installed XP Pro. Now everytime it boots into Pro I get some kind of Video error and never get past the blue moving thing. Any suggestions on that?

Specs: Athlon XP 1700+
40gig HDD (29gig partition for Home and 10gig for pro)
512 MB RAM
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64 MB
29.42 drivers on Home

Thanks,
Pat

#2 sapiens74

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 10:26 AM

Boot into safe mode, remove the video driver

then reboot and reinstall

#3 PaTiNsAnE

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 03:49 PM

Hi Again,

Well, when I try to boot into safe mode under the xp pro copy it doesn't get past the file list. Just freezes after that, you think a re-install will do much?

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 04:10 PM

Try to use last known good configuration

#5 adamvjackson

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 06:20 PM

You could boot from your XP Professional CD, and choose to 'Repair' the current installation.

Were you ever able to successfully boot into XP Pro? If so, what has changed since that time? Driver installation?

Can you boot into XP Home normally?

#6 PaTiNsAnE

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 08:25 PM

No, I was never able to succesfully initialize xp pro. It gets to the blue moving thing and goes no further. I can boot into Home normally if I choose so from the boot menu.

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#7 adamvjackson

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 08:31 PM

Could you try booting from the XP Pro CD and choosing to repair your current install?

#8 ThC 129

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 11:34 PM

try running Fdisk /mbr or in the recovery console type FixMBR

It sounds like the MBR on the disk needs to be rewritten. I had this happen to me after resoring a disk image to a new hard drive. It wouldnt boot into windows it would get to the login screen and never past that.

#9 PaTiNsAnE

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Posted 01 November 2003 - 02:14 AM

exactly! I did what you guys said and did a repair to the pro partition. But now when I reach the login screen it says it can't logon to some domain, with every password I know and even without one!! Help!

Ill try the mbr thing

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#10 PaTiNsAnE

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Posted 01 November 2003 - 02:22 AM

nothing......I fixed the mbr but it still asks for a password when I didnt set one, it still trys to logon to some domain

help

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#11 PaTiNsAnE

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Posted 01 November 2003 - 04:22 AM

Well,

I did the most obvious thing im my situation and started from scratch, it seems I had done an initial format as an ntfs quick. And we all know this can cause problems on a new partition or hard drive, you must do a full format.

Thank you all for your suggestions,
Pat