Dual-boot menu gone after reinstalling windows98.

[Sparky Anderson]

I posted a question a few days ago because i had to reinstall windows 98 and it overwrote the boot-menu. I was dual-booting win2k and win98. Now I have tried a few things to get it back but I just can't get it to work.

1. Booting win2k from the CD-ROM
   This I just cannot figure out, I set the boot process to "CDROM, C, A" in my bios but it just loads win98 up and nothing from the win2k CD. I've also used my Win98 startup disk to load with CDROM support but can't find a file on there that would let me directly boot into win2k.
   
2. Booting win2k from the dos prompt.
   I boot into a dos prompt and I just cannot find any file to use to boot into win2k. I just type "win" to load win98 this way. Is there a comperable way to do this in for win2k or not?
   
3. fixmbr
   I tried this, by booting from the win2k startup disks, but had no luck, it did absolutely nothing. Even tried "fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0" with no luck.
   
4. Win2k repair
   Again, using the win2k startup disks, no luck either, it can't find my win2k installation and asks for a repair disk which i didn't make (doh!, that's why if I can get into win2k then I can make this disk).
   
5. fixboot
   This one sucked, after this when I tried to boot it gave me an error saying it couldn't find NTLDR. I wiped the drive and reinstalled win98 again because I was a little frustrated at that time.

Can anyone give me any info on how to get into win2k just once so I can make that repair disk or if there's an easier way to go about fixing this. Thanks for any help, sorry if it's been posted before, I ran a ton of forum searches here and on Microsofts site but just can't find the info that I need.

 

[andrey]

Try to boot from CD and choose Fast Repair >> Do not have Emergency Disks/Locate Windows 2000

This process will automatically determine where you have your Windows2000 installed and it will create the appropriate changes to MBR. Good luck!

 

[Sparky Anderson]

Yeah I tried that too..

I can't boot off the CD, either there is no way to do it or I am too dumb to figure it out.

 

[dartblazer]

if youre able to boot into dos, cd to the i386 dir and type in winnt.exe

that will load the windows2k installer thing.