View Full Version : Restoring my Dual-Booting W98-2000
Vieux Richard
07-22-2002, 10:45 AM
My laptop hard drive is partitioned in 2 and have been dual-booting W98SE (C) & W2K Professional(D).
Had to reinstall W98SE and have now lost the ability to dual-boot and cannot boot in to W2K.
Can I/ do I have to create a new Boot.ini file?
pointd
07-22-2002, 05:20 PM
You will have to do a repair on Win2000 to get back the ability to dual boot as you have lost the Win2000 Boot Loader which reads the boot.ini file.
Vieux,
That also happened to me some time ago. I had to reinstall Win 2k because Win 98 is not smart enough to reccognize the presence of Win 2k.
Vieux Richard
07-23-2002, 05:49 PM
I fixed it by booting from the W2K CD and selecting the Repair option. I then chose the Console repair and rang the Fixboot utility.
Vieux,
Good that you could repair. It saves a lot of time from reinstalling. Last time, I also tried repair but it was not possible.
pointd
07-24-2002, 01:20 PM
Thanks for the tip, Fixboot is far better than Full Repair.
Vieux Richard
07-26-2002, 04:47 AM
tmp, as I said earlier in this post, it's one of the utililities that's listed when you choose Console Repair in the Repair option of the W2K CD. I wasn't sure what it did, but I thought I may as well have a go as that seemed to be exactly my problem.
So when I ran it, lo and behold, it told me that the Boot file had been repaired!
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