HELP: After installed Win98 in C:, I CAN'T boot Win2k in D:

[wjones]

Here is the situation:
I've Win98SE in C drive and Win2k in D drive (C and D drives are different hard drives).

Because the Win98SE crashed so bad so i formatted my C: and reinstall the Win98SE in C:. After that, the option that pop up for me to choose either to boot Win2k or Win98SE is gone. Every time I start my PC, it automatically boot the Win98SE and I'm not be able to boot Win2k at all.

Anyone knows what can I do to boot the Win2k?

PLEASE HELP. THANK YOU!

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

in winNT4
there where 3 disks you made at start up to repair problems, it should be the same with win2000,
you need to repair, .... opps i have forgotten what it is called, but you will be able to figure it out.

hope this gives you a starting point

 

[BCYL]

When you re-install Win98, it wiped out the NT Loader (which Win2k uses for dual-boot situations) on the MBR of your drive... what you need to do is pop back in your win2k CD and do a repair install... that should put NT loader back into the MBR of your drive and fix your problem...

 

[Technonut]

Try booting from your Win2000 CD, choose repair using the repair console. It will ask for the administator password, type it in, press "enter", then type FIXBOOT, press "enter" It will ask if you are sure, type Y "enter." See if it works. If it does not, do the same thing again except type in FIXMBR. It worked for me using FIXBOOT, but I knew of someone that had to use FIXMBR.

 

[wjones]

Thanks guys! I'll try it out as soon as I get back home.

Thanks again!!!

 

[robisc]

I too had the same problem with a dual boot system installing Win98se after Win2k, typically it is easier the other way around, these guys are right about running repair and fixing the NT boot loader and here is a good link with step by step instructions.
Hope I Linkified this right.
http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/windowsnt/dualboot.asp