I can't boot on win98 after installed xp for dual..help..

[theplanb]

Hi.
I had win98 installed on my machine and I thought I would go with dual boot by installing win xp.
I divided the main partition into two by using partition magic. When I was creating the new partition for win xp, the wizard asked whether I want to set the new partition as active so I can install and boot from it.. so i checked the box.
Now.. after all is done and reboot and installation. I can not go into Win98 anymore. When it boots, there are 2 options in dos boot manager thingy. one is something like,.. "old operating system on c driver" and ther other one is Windows xp professional.
Now.. after I made the newpartition as active, the new partition became the new C drive and the partition which win98 was on became "hidden" and no drive letter is assignend to it.

When i select the old operating system, I get an error saying non-system disk, can't boot ...or something like that..
Is there any way to get the win98 to boot? Please help..

 

[iluvdeal]

You weren't suppose to that partition active. You should have just created another partition for XP then when you install XP from within 98, you can choose to install to that partition and XP will install its boot manager to your C: where 98 is.

 

[Dahak]

you weren't support to set the new partition active. You maybe able to fix you problem by setting the win98 partition back to active and depeding on your partitioning software it may hide the winxp partition, you may have to unhide the winxp partition.( i know Partition Magic) does this. Then you boot off the winxp cd and go to install like you normally would then on the 3rd or 4th screen it will ask do you want to repair this version of windows. Say yes and you should be set

Dahak