xp dual boot broken after partitioning Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss xp dual boot broken after partitioning in the Windows Vista forums; hi guys, i'm experiencing some major problems after splitting my vista partition in 2 partitions using the partitioning tool in vista (business edition) i keep getting an error when ...

[rabbithole]

hi guys,

i'm experiencing some major problems after splitting my vista partition in 2 partitions using the partitioning tool in vista (business edition)

i keep getting an error when trying to boot xp!

This is what i get:

session3_initialization_failed
stop: 0x0000006f (0xc000000e, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

i googled in this but nothing relevant seems to come up

everything worked like a charm before the partition fiddling

please help!

[Znod]

Searrc here

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...a/default.mspx

on "session3_initialization_failed." I did so, but couldn't connect anything tightly with your case. But, there is a chance that the partitionon you created is the wrong type. I really don't have enough info about what you were doing before you partitioned, etc.

[rabbithole]

Searrc here

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...a/default.mspx

on "session3_initialization_failed." I did so, but couldn't connect anything tightly with your case. But, there is a chance that the partitionon you created is the wrong type. I really don't have enough info about what you were doing before you partitioned, etc.

hei znod,

thanks for your reply.
I did search the net and the ms site, but found nothing on this particular error (i mean the 0xc000000e part of it).
i made an extra ntfs partition from the vista partition, nothing happened to the XP partition.

[Znod]

I see; you were moving to a dual boot. Your process, at least superficially, was correct. Vista has a good help file on partitions. As I recall, you find it at right click computer, choose manage, choose disk management, and then start exploring help/partition. If you can get to a Vista machine, you can see if what you did partionning-wise was what you should have done. You could start up with a Vista disk and try "repairing startup." Who knows?

[rabbithole]

Originally Posted by Znod

I see; you were moving to a dual boot.

no actually, i hàd a dual boot, which worked fine.
then i started playing with partitions and xp crashed

[Znod]

I see; you were just trying to change the partitions. I would probably consider myself to be ready for a reinstall of both systems in your position. You might try reinstalling Vista first in the hope that somehow it's the boot configuration that is fouled up.