I have a dual booting question for you guys. I had win98 on one drive and win2k on another. It did work OK for about a month, but now when I try to get to win98 I get: Invalid System Disk, Replace the Disk, and Press any Key.:|
I have win98 on my C: drive and win2k on the D drive. These are seperate drives and both are Fat32. Under win2k I can still access the C drive and all my data appears to be intact. How could this happen? I don't understand. It worked fine for quite some time. I had Norton SystemWorks 2001 on the D drive for win2k first, and then I installed it on the C drive under win98 also. Is Norton my culprit? Is it possible that my mbr is toast? I didn't add any other hardware or software lately. And I didn't get any error messages from Norton. I see some people have had this problem with Norton, but only after they got an error message from Norton and then they clicked yes to fix.
If I boot from a floppy, then switch to the C drive and type fdisk/mbr will it fix my C drive's mbr? I am worried about this because I don't know where the win2k multiple boot manager thing is installed. If I nuke it by overwriting the mbr, and the fdisk/mbr thing doesn't fix the C drive, then I wouldn't be able to get to any operating system and I would be dead. But I could be wrong. Where is the win2k boot menu thing installed? Do I need to do anything besides fdisk/mbr? I did this a long time ago, but it seems that I had to also use fdisk to make the partition active or something. I can't really remember.
Any suggestions?
I have win98 on my C: drive and win2k on the D drive. These are seperate drives and both are Fat32. Under win2k I can still access the C drive and all my data appears to be intact. How could this happen? I don't understand. It worked fine for quite some time. I had Norton SystemWorks 2001 on the D drive for win2k first, and then I installed it on the C drive under win98 also. Is Norton my culprit? Is it possible that my mbr is toast? I didn't add any other hardware or software lately. And I didn't get any error messages from Norton. I see some people have had this problem with Norton, but only after they got an error message from Norton and then they clicked yes to fix.
If I boot from a floppy, then switch to the C drive and type fdisk/mbr will it fix my C drive's mbr? I am worried about this because I don't know where the win2k multiple boot manager thing is installed. If I nuke it by overwriting the mbr, and the fdisk/mbr thing doesn't fix the C drive, then I wouldn't be able to get to any operating system and I would be dead. But I could be wrong. Where is the win2k boot menu thing installed? Do I need to do anything besides fdisk/mbr? I did this a long time ago, but it seems that I had to also use fdisk to make the partition active or something. I can't really remember.
Any suggestions?
