Greetings!
I have an old IBM in my garage that I have set up to dual boot WIN 98 SE and WIN XP Pro.
The hard drive was only 10gb in size. This worked fine for me for years but after getting updates and adding games my XP partition finally started running out of room.
I could see that my WIN 98 partition had a few gigs of space left on it so I broke out my very old version of Partition Magic!
I chose to have it divide the available space between the two logical disks being C: and D:
Now my PC won't boot up either OS. The XP goes to a screen saying that it can't locate the autocheck something and then reboots. The Win 98 just boots to a C:\ prompt.
Any ideas? I have and plan to install a larger HDD but I'm still bothered this happened and am wondering if there is a easy solution to this or should I just never do this again on a dual boot system.
I run the WIN 98 SE so I can use my old yet expensive joystick for games. I also have games that XP doesn't like just as it doesn't like my scanner, my Voodoo video card and who knows what else. I have XP so I can do real stuff on that PC if needed. I have work around drivers for almost all of the hardware but the old games. I call the box my "Legacy Box" since I basically only use it for all of my old stuff. I still like to have the XP to go to if needed on the same bx. Help if you can please. I'm hoping for a quick type repair master boot record solution of some sort. Thanks!
I have an old IBM in my garage that I have set up to dual boot WIN 98 SE and WIN XP Pro.
The hard drive was only 10gb in size. This worked fine for me for years but after getting updates and adding games my XP partition finally started running out of room.
I could see that my WIN 98 partition had a few gigs of space left on it so I broke out my very old version of Partition Magic!
I chose to have it divide the available space between the two logical disks being C: and D:
Now my PC won't boot up either OS. The XP goes to a screen saying that it can't locate the autocheck something and then reboots. The Win 98 just boots to a C:\ prompt.
Any ideas? I have and plan to install a larger HDD but I'm still bothered this happened and am wondering if there is a easy solution to this or should I just never do this again on a dual boot system.
I run the WIN 98 SE so I can use my old yet expensive joystick for games. I also have games that XP doesn't like just as it doesn't like my scanner, my Voodoo video card and who knows what else. I have XP so I can do real stuff on that PC if needed. I have work around drivers for almost all of the hardware but the old games. I call the box my "Legacy Box" since I basically only use it for all of my old stuff. I still like to have the XP to go to if needed on the same bx. Help if you can please. I'm hoping for a quick type repair master boot record solution of some sort. Thanks!
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