Problem after installing x64 in dual boot config with 32-bit windo

I downloaded the windows xp x64 trial cd and have tried installing it on a
different partition from the 32-bit xp to make a dual boot configuration.
After getting past the inital setup phase and restarting I get the option of
both windows. when I try to boot windows xp x64 all I get is a blank screen.
Windows xp 32-bit still boots ok. I did then try to boot off the x64 cd and
now all i get is a blank screen for that too. Does anybody have any idea what
might be wrong?

Andre
Wed May 17 19:53:08 CDT 2006

Have you tried booting in to safe mode? Also, are there any external usb
devices attached when trying to boot up? If so, remove them and try booting
up again. If that does not resolve the problem, it could be that the PC
needs a BIOS update or it could also be bad storage drivers (as was reported
recently).
--
Andre
Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"samthecrazyman" <samthecrazyman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6076807E-BC0C-499B-8B73-16DE8D0AFB49@microsoft.com...
>I downloaded the windows xp x64 trial cd and have tried installing it on a
> different partition from the 32-bit xp to make a dual boot configuration.
> After getting past the inital setup phase and restarting I get the option
> of
> both windows. when I try to boot windows xp x64 all I get is a blank
> screen.
> Windows xp 32-bit still boots ok. I did then try to boot off the x64 cd
> and
> now all i get is a blank screen for that too. Does anybody have any idea
> what
> might be wrong?

John
Thu May 18 07:07:18 CDT 2006

Could you provide some specific information. There are 3 sections to the
install. Text, GUI and final boot. Did you get into the GUI boot and are
failing in the final boot?
Information on your drives. SATA, IDE, 1 drive 2 partitions, 2 drives, what
partition(s) are active. Did you install with any drives disconnected or
change the hard drive sequence? Which drive has the active boot.ini (system
drive in drive manager from the 32bit system that boots.) What does it look
like (copy here) Please give information above from the same drive manager
(ie drive 0 partition 1 xp32 active system etc.)

"samthecrazyman" <samthecrazyman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6076807E-BC0C-499B-8B73-16DE8D0AFB49@microsoft.com...
>I downloaded the windows xp x64 trial cd and have tried installing it on a
> different partition from the 32-bit xp to make a dual boot configuration.
> After getting past the inital setup phase and restarting I get the option
> of
> both windows. when I try to boot windows xp x64 all I get is a blank
> screen.
> Windows xp 32-bit still boots ok. I did then try to boot off the x64 cd
> and
> now all i get is a blank screen for that too. Does anybody have any idea
> what
> might be wrong?

Charlie
Thu May 18 11:28:36 CDT 2006

As Andre suggests, boot into safe mode if you can. If you can get into safe
mode, that tells us that most things are getting loaded, including your hard
drive controllers, and the problem could well be video drivers. You can
update those from within safe mode.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64

samthecrazyman wrote:
> I downloaded the windows xp x64 trial cd and have tried installing it on a
> different partition from the 32-bit xp to make a dual boot configuration.
> After getting past the inital setup phase and restarting I get the option
> of both windows. when I try to boot windows xp x64 all I get is a blank
> screen. Windows xp 32-bit still boots ok. I did then try to boot off the
> x64 cd and now all i get is a blank screen for that too. Does anybody
> have any idea what might be wrong?

samthecrazyman
Thu May 18 17:16:02 CDT 2006

It passes text part of install but fails on loading GUI part after reboot. I
have 2 IDE Hard drives and 2 CD-ROM drives. The first hard drive has two
partitons and the second one I only use for storage. Partition 1 is x32 and
has the active boot.ini. Partition 2 has x64. x32 shows that x32 is a
primaray partition and x64 is an extended partiton. x32 is active. I'm not
100% sure what all this means so i'm not sure if it is right.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Could you provide some specific information. There are 3 sections to the
> install. Text, GUI and final boot. Did you get into the GUI boot and are
> failing in the final boot?
> Information on your drives. SATA, IDE, 1 drive 2 partitions, 2 drives, what
> partition(s) are active. Did you install with any drives disconnected or
> change the hard drive sequence? Which drive has the active boot.ini (system
> drive in drive manager from the 32bit system that boots.) What does it look
> like (copy here) Please give information above from the same drive manager
> (ie drive 0 partition 1 xp32 active system etc.)
>
> "samthecrazyman" <samthecrazyman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6076807E-BC0C-499B-8B73-16DE8D0AFB49@microsoft.com...
> >I downloaded the windows xp x64 trial cd and have tried installing it on a
> > different partition from the 32-bit xp to make a dual boot configuration.
> > After getting past the inital setup phase and restarting I get the option
> > of
> > both windows. when I try to boot windows xp x64 all I get is a blank
> > screen.
> > Windows xp 32-bit still boots ok. I did then try to boot off the x64 cd
> > and
> > now all i get is a blank screen for that too. Does anybody have any idea
> > what
> > might be wrong?
>
>
>

samthecrazyman
Thu May 18 17:19:02 CDT 2006

I have tried all that you said with no success. Just out of curiosity, I had
an old small hard drive and I tried installing it to that on it's own and it
went all the way through the installation no problem. Would you be able to
tell me where I can find out more about the bad storage drivers that were
reported recently?

"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

> Have you tried booting in to safe mode? Also, are there any external usb
> devices attached when trying to boot up? If so, remove them and try booting
> up again. If that does not resolve the problem, it could be that the PC
> needs a BIOS update or it could also be bad storage drivers (as was reported
> recently).
> --
> Andre
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
> "samthecrazyman" <samthecrazyman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6076807E-BC0C-499B-8B73-16DE8D0AFB49@microsoft.com...
> >I downloaded the windows xp x64 trial cd and have tried installing it on a
> > different partition from the 32-bit xp to make a dual boot configuration.
> > After getting past the inital setup phase and restarting I get the option
> > of
> > both windows. when I try to boot windows xp x64 all I get is a blank
> > screen.
> > Windows xp 32-bit still boots ok. I did then try to boot off the x64 cd
> > and
> > now all i get is a blank screen for that too. Does anybody have any idea
> > what
> > might be wrong?
>
>
>

John
Thu May 18 18:39:00 CDT 2006

You have two ide drives. You say drive 1 has partition 1 x32 system
Boot.ini partition 2 Data
Then you say partition 2 has x64. You don't say anything about
drive 2
So, did you install x64 over the partition that you used to use as data by
creating a new extended partition or are we talking about drive 2
If you go into system properties advanced startup, edit the boot.ini make
a copy of the boot.ini so we can see it, then don't save when you end. List
the information about your drives from the Drive Manager by drive (ie drive
0 Partition 1 x32 system, active, boot, etc)
Also, I take it you have the CD then the first hard drive as the first two
items in boot priority in your BIOS
Normally on return from restart from text to GUI you would have a 1 second
parameter in the bootloader timeout and you would barely catch a glimpse of
the entries on the boot choice screen as it boots into the newly installed
x64 system.

"samthecrazyman" <samthecrazyman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C348C842-ABCF-472E-8038-E7C35DFF9316@microsoft.com...
> It passes text part of install but fails on loading GUI part after reboot.
> I
> have 2 IDE Hard drives and 2 CD-ROM drives. The first hard drive has two
> partitons and the second one I only use for storage. Partition 1 is x32
> and
> has the active boot.ini. Partition 2 has x64. x32 shows that x32 is a
> primaray partition and x64 is an extended partiton. x32 is active. I'm not
> 100% sure what all this means so i'm not sure if it is right.
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> Could you provide some specific information. There are 3 sections to the
>> install. Text, GUI and final boot. Did you get into the GUI boot and
>> are
>> failing in the final boot?
>> Information on your drives. SATA, IDE, 1 drive 2 partitions, 2 drives,
>> what
>> partition(s) are active. Did you install with any drives disconnected or
>> change the hard drive sequence? Which drive has the active boot.ini
>> (system
>> drive in drive manager from the 32bit system that boots.) What does it
>> look
>> like (copy here) Please give information above from the same drive
>> manager
>> (ie drive 0 partition 1 xp32 active system etc.)
>>
>> "samthecrazyman" <samthecrazyman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:6076807E-BC0C-499B-8B73-16DE8D0AFB49@microsoft.com...
>> >I downloaded the windows xp x64 trial cd and have tried installing it on
>> >a
>> > different partition from the 32-bit xp to make a dual boot
>> > configuration.
>> > After getting past the inital setup phase and restarting I get the
>> > option
>> > of
>> > both windows. when I try to boot windows xp x64 all I get is a blank
>> > screen.
>> > Windows xp 32-bit still boots ok. I did then try to boot off the x64 cd
>> > and
>> > now all i get is a blank screen for that too. Does anybody have any
>> > idea
>> > what
>> > might be wrong?
>>
>>
>>

samthecrazyman
Thu May 18 18:56:01 CDT 2006

I'm sorry, I made a mistake. My hard drive arrangement is:

HD1 - 2 partitions
Partition 1 - Windows XP 32-bit
Partition 2 - Windows XP x64

HD2 - 1 Partition, just used for storage

"John Barnes" wrote:

> You have two ide drives. You say drive 1 has partition 1 x32 system
> Boot.ini partition 2 Data
> Then you say partition 2 has x64. You don't say anything about
> drive 2
> So, did you install x64 over the partition that you used to use as data by
> creating a new extended partition or are we talking about drive 2
> If you go into system properties advanced startup, edit the boot.ini make
> a copy of the boot.ini so we can see it, then don't save when you end. List
> the information about your drives from the Drive Manager by drive (ie drive
> 0 Partition 1 x32 system, active, boot, etc)
> Also, I take it you have the CD then the first hard drive as the first two
> items in boot priority in your BIOS
> Normally on return from restart from text to GUI you would have a 1 second
> parameter in the bootloader timeout and you would barely catch a glimpse of
> the entries on the boot choice screen as it boots into the newly installed
> x64 system.
>
> "samthecrazyman" <samthecrazyman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C348C842-ABCF-472E-8038-E7C35DFF9316@microsoft.com...
> > It passes text part of install but fails on loading GUI part after reboot.
> > I
> > have 2 IDE Hard drives and 2 CD-ROM drives. The first hard drive has two
> > partitons and the second one I only use for storage. Partition 1 is x32
> > and
> > has the active boot.ini. Partition 2 has x64. x32 shows that x32 is a
> > primaray partition and x64 is an extended partiton. x32 is active. I'm not
> > 100% sure what all this means so i'm not sure if it is right.
> >
> > "John Barnes" wrote:
> >
> >> Could you provide some specific information. There are 3 sections to the
> >> install. Text, GUI and final boot. Did you get into the GUI boot and
> >> are
> >> failing in the final boot?
> >> Information on your drives. SATA, IDE, 1 drive 2 partitions, 2 drives,
> >> what
> >> partition(s) are active. Did you install with any drives disconnected or
> >> change the hard drive sequence? Which drive has the active boot.ini
> >> (system
> >> drive in drive manager from the 32bit system that boots.) What does it
> >> look
> >> like (copy here) Please give information above from the same drive
> >> manager
> >> (ie drive 0 partition 1 xp32 active system etc.)
> >>
> >> "samthecrazyman" <samthecrazyman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> >> message
> >> news:6076807E-BC0C-499B-8B73-16DE8D0AFB49@microsoft.com...
> >> >I downloaded the windows xp x64 trial cd and have tried installing it on
> >> >a
> >> > different partition from the 32-bit xp to make a dual boot
> >> > configuration.
> >> > After getting past the inital setup phase and restarting I get the
> >> > option
> >> > of
> >> > both windows. when I try to boot windows xp x64 all I get is a blank
> >> > screen.
> >> > Windows xp 32-bit still boots ok. I did then try to boot off the x64 cd
> >> > and
> >> > now all i get is a blank screen for that too. Does anybody have any
> >> > idea
> >> > what
> >> > might be wrong?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>