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07-22-2002, 09:45 AM
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Restoring my Dual-Booting W98-2000
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?
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07-22-2002, 04:20 PM
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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.
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07-22-2002, 09:58 PM
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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.
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07-23-2002, 04:49 PM
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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.
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07-23-2002, 10:10 PM
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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. |
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07-24-2002, 12:20 PM
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Thanks for the tip, Fixboot is far better than Full Repair.
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07-25-2002, 11:33 PM
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What is Fixboot?
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07-26-2002, 03:47 AM
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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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