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Old 02-12-2004, 11:11 PM   #1
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Triple boot safeguards

Win 98/Win 2000/Win XP Every once in awhile I take one of my systems and set it up this way until something goes wrong with my tinkering and one of these OS;s is lost to me.If this were to happen again wouldnt all I need to do is backup the mbr from the C: drive and the boot.ini to recover this setup so that all works as it originally did?These OS's are all on different partitions btw.
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Old 02-13-2004, 10:36 AM   #2
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If anything goes wrong just use the XP_CD to fixmbr and then you will have access to all your OS's. I keep a copy of my boot.ini b/c it has lines for booting into safe mode and such and don't feel like having just a standard one. But fixmbr should fix your problem if something goes wrong. Good Luck!
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