Tks Big Z , I found the solution .
As I allways have the latest symantec updates automatically ,
I found a small prog on the site of Symantec SEINST.EXE to update the SYMEVENT files and that did it .
I didn\' understand at first because when I changed the ntldr and ntdetect.com from winxp to the ones from w2k , the symevent file was loaded in w2k,but I had to change the files again to boot in winXP .With the normal ntldr and ntdetect.com files from XP , w2k loaded also normally but only the symevent file did not function .
Anyway tks again for the reply .