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Help! Dual-booting problems! *** Problem FIXED! Thanks! ***

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palad

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OK, I'm new to dual-booting, I thought I'd give it a try. I'm running a P2-400 with 192 MB of RAM. I have 2 HDD's: my primary HDD is a 6.4 GB (C), it is the drive I boot to and have my Win98 files on. My other HDD is a 30GB partitioned into 2 8GB drives and a 12 GB drive. (D, E,& F). I wanted to dual-boot Win 2K, so I ran the installation, told it to let me specify which partition I want to load it on, and pointed it to the F: drive (12 GB). It seemed to install fine, but after finishing setup, when the system boots up, the boot menu gives me an option for Windows 2000 Setup and for Windows 98. If I choose the setup option, it starts me right back thru the setup procedure from the beginning. If I choose the Windows 98 option, it boots fine into Win 98. Now, if I leave the Windows 2000 cd in the drive, it will boot straight to 2K without even giving me a boot menu.

My first idea is that due to some cramped conditition inside the case, I have to have my primary drive cabled and jumpered as a slave to my LS-120 drive. My 30 GB drive is then a master to my cdrom drive. Could the cabling/jumpering have any influence on 2K?

So what am I missing? I can modify the boot.ini file enough to set windows 98 as my default and to change the wait time, but I just cannot get it to boot to 2K.

Help! Any ideas?

(BTW, also posting this in Operating Systems.)
 
Are you sure it is starting the setup process completely over? Or is it just finishing the setup process?

Usually the Windows2k setup option only shows up until the setup process is complete then it will change to Win2k Pro or whatever flavor you installed.
 
No, it actually starts back thru it, asking what partition I want to install to, telling me I already have an existing installation on that partition and I can write over it if I want, etc...
 
palad: well then your install got messed up somewhere along the line....I would do another install and overwrite the other one.
 
Got it! Someone in OS's suggested the problem could be in the partition I installed it on. I took it off the extended partition and put it on the primary, and now it works fine. Thanks guys!
 
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