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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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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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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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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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