Re: Dual Boot Problem

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:31:17 UTC, Stuart Gray <srtgray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

PaulRS wrote:
This may be beyond the scope of this group, but let me proceed:
I have an IBM T20 Laptop set up as dual boot with the HD divided
into several partitions. The two operating systems are Win2000 and
Warp 4.52

All was working fine until I (stupidly) thought to change a drive
letter under Win2000 to bring the FAT partitions in line with the OS/2
setup.

Win2000 wrote something to the HD. Now when I start OS/2 it gets all
the way through loading its drivers, the blue screen appears with the
"wait" clock as desktop is loading and then it TRAPS to a black
screen.

I can get it to work again by removing "Boot Manager" and Reinstalling
"Boot Manager" - OS/2 will then load. However, if I boot back to
Win2000 and then try again to boot OS2 the same trap occurs.
(1) I have an earlier "image" of the Win2000 partition that I
reinstalled thinking Win2000t was continuing to write to the HD.
However, even with this earlier (pre-my mistake) I get the same
results.
(2) I deleted both the partitions I tried changing drive leters on
(under win2000) and reinstalled them from earlier backups - the same
problem results - no change.

I perceive that OS2 is checking something on the drive as it goes to
desktop that win2000 has messed up. However for some reason
reinstalling "boot manager" temporarily resolves it until windows
(even an earlier backup) runs again.

Any suggestions, before I have to completely wipe the whole drive and
start from scratch again?

Paul
What SP is Win2k? I ask because prior to SP2, Win2k messed up BM.
DFSee has a fix for this. Other than that, you can use DFSee to touch
the LVM information and see if that makes it right.

Stuart

Win2000 is SP4
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