Windows NT 4.0 SP3 Is Not Updated for Windows 2000 Dual-Boot Configurations

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

SYMPTOMS

After you install Windows 2000 in a dual-boot configuration with Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3), you may experience any of the following symptoms:

• When you start Windows NT 4.0, you receive an error message similar to:

  STOP: 0x0000007B (0x8881Ae30, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE




• You cannot access your NTFS partitions with Windows NT 4.0.

CAUSE

Windows 2000 Setup does not update the Windows NT 4.0 SP3 Ntfs.sys driver for dual-boot configurations. The Ntfs.sys file needs to be updated so that Windows NT 4.0 can gain access to the NTFS partitions.

RESOLUTION

To prevent this problem from occurring, apply Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 before you install Windows 2000.

For information about applying Service Pack 4, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv kberrmsg ntstop
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb