I get no boot menu

[DarkKnight]

I had windows 2000 and I just installed windows 98. I was expecting to get a boot menu allowing me to choose whether I wanted to use Windows 2000 or Windows 98, but it never game me the option. Now it just goes to Windows 98. Is there anyway to get my boot menu back?

 

[Slikkster]

The fix, right here at Anandtech, no less

(Win98 has overwritten the boot sector, wiping out the Win2K boot sector. The last paragraph of the Anandtech FAQ will tell you how to repair it in YOUR situation)

 

[DarkKnight]

I did that, and I did get a boot menu, but now, when I choose Windows 98, I get a I/O error:| Please help!! I wanna use 98!

 

[Medea]

If you installed Win98 after Win2k, and the Win98 partition began after the first 8 gigs on your hd, you won't be able to access Win98.

You have to install Win98 first - it has to be installed with the first 8 gigs on your hd.

 

[DarkKnight]

The harddrive I installed it in is not even 8 gigs.

 

[Medea]

So, then I'm assuming you've got Win2k on the 10G hd and Win98 on the 6G hd.

Since you can access the Win2k OS, have you tried going into Disk Management? You also might consider getting Partition Magic - great program.