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Old November 5th 05, 12:56 PM
M Jones
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Default Unable to boot dual boot system

Hi,

I have 2 versions of Windows on my 20Gb HD. Win98SE on the first partition
(C and Windows 2000 on the second partition (D. For some reason the
boot record of my HD has gone and I am unable to boot. I have tried
starting with the Win98 startup disk and I can see C: drive and the old
boot.ini file.

I have done FDISK /MBR and SYS C: to try and get my machine to boot to Win98
but it is still freezing after bios detects my first hard disk. Does
anybody know what I can do to get my machine to boot? Should I consider
using a boot utility to replace my old boot loaders?

Thanks.


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Old November 5th 05, 02:47 PM
Ben Myers
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Default Unable to boot dual boot system

Start fdisk, accept "Large disk support", select option 2 and make sure
that the C: partition is set to Active. If it isn't, change it, then remove
the floppy and restart.

Ben

"M Jones" wrote in message ...
Hi,

I have 2 versions of Windows on my 20Gb HD. Win98SE on the first partition
(C and Windows 2000 on the second partition (D. For some reason the
boot record of my HD has gone and I am unable to boot. I have tried
starting with the Win98 startup disk and I can see C: drive and the old
boot.ini file.

I have done FDISK /MBR and SYS C: to try and get my machine to boot to Win98
but it is still freezing after bios detects my first hard disk. Does
anybody know what I can do to get my machine to boot? Should I consider
using a boot utility to replace my old boot loaders?

Thanks.


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Old November 5th 05, 07:23 PM
M Jones
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Default Unable to boot dual boot system

Thankyou. That worked.

I've realised after that I must have set my main partition to inactive.
That will teach me for messing about with partition magic without knowing
what i'm doing.


"Ben Myers" wrote in message
...
Start fdisk, accept "Large disk support", select option 2 and make sure
that the C: partition is set to Active. If it isn't, change it, then remove
the floppy and restart.

Ben

"M Jones" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have 2 versions of Windows on my 20Gb HD. Win98SE on the first
partition
(C and Windows 2000 on the second partition (D. For some reason the
boot record of my HD has gone and I am unable to boot. I have tried
starting with the Win98 startup disk and I can see C: drive and the old
boot.ini file.

I have done FDISK /MBR and SYS C: to try and get my machine to boot to
Win98
but it is still freezing after bios detects my first hard disk. Does
anybody know what I can do to get my machine to boot? Should I consider
using a boot utility to replace my old boot loaders?

Thanks.




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Old November 6th 05, 11:23 AM
Borg hater
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Default Unable to boot dual boot system

And you're also lucky Ben was lucky enough to guess your actual problem.
The fact that you were messing with PM and what you were doing would have
helped others not so lucky on guessing.

--
Lil' Dave
Beware the rule quoters, the corp mindset, the Borg
Else you will be absorbed
"M Jones" wrote in message
...
Thankyou. That worked.

I've realised after that I must have set my main partition to inactive.
That will teach me for messing about with partition magic without knowing
what i'm doing.


"Ben Myers" wrote in message
...
Start fdisk, accept "Large disk support", select option 2 and make sure
that the C: partition is set to Active. If it isn't, change it, then

remove
the floppy and restart.

Ben

"M Jones" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have 2 versions of Windows on my 20Gb HD. Win98SE on the first
partition
(C and Windows 2000 on the second partition (D. For some reason the
boot record of my HD has gone and I am unable to boot. I have tried
starting with the Win98 startup disk and I can see C: drive and the old
boot.ini file.

I have done FDISK /MBR and SYS C: to try and get my machine to boot to
Win98
but it is still freezing after bios detects my first hard disk. Does
anybody know what I can do to get my machine to boot? Should I consider
using a boot utility to replace my old boot loaders?

Thanks.






 




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