A little help needed w/ 2K boot loader

[simonthought]

Hello,

I have recently installed 98 onto the first partition of my 40G Maxtor-

I intentionally left the first ~ 5g free for 98 when I was installing Win2K- I made 2K use D:

anyway, I followed w/ the setup /ntldr as stated in the FAQ's, but it did'n't work.

so I did the recovery console fixboot and it put both 98 and 2k in the boot loader........... excellent....







.......but, when I tried to select 98, it said something like: i/o error accessing boot sector file multi0disk0rdisk0partionblah blah

or something to that affect.....

.....so, I used bootpart and successfully deleted and readded the 98 partition, and it then allowed my to boot either 98 or 2k....


but now there are 2 options for Windows 2000, one says: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, and the other says Windows 2000 (default)

but when I try to use the latter default option, it gives me that i/o error again..... (but the first option works)

I tried using boot part again, but the errorous 3rd Default doesen't even show up in the bootpart identifier.


I just want to remove it and make the 1st 2k option the default.


any help is gratefully appreciated.

 

[SaigonK]

Once you get into Windows 2k edit your Boot.ini file in the root of your c: drive.
Remove the lines referencing the options that do not work for you, but be careful, if you delete the wrong one then you might get hosed!

 

[Medea]

When you're dual-booting off of one hd, usually C is the letter for the both partitions with the OS's. Both are primary, and the one you're booting off of is the "active" partition while the other is "hidden." Your D designation might be the reason you're now seeing two options for Win2k.

I suggest that you get Partition Magic - great program for partitioning, setting up a dual-boot, etc. You can also correct any mistakes you've made - well, just about any mistakes 😉