Please help with a boot up problem

[Ultrasonic]

Check this out guys: my friend had a dual boot machine with a hard drive partitioned into 3 partitions. One was for windows 98(c) the other was for winnt4 server(d) and the last one was for data. What happened was this: something got messed up with win98 and he decided to format c drive. As a result the ntldr program and everything else got deleted. When he starts up the computer now, it doesn't give the loader, nor a spash screen, it just says incorrect startup disk or something like that. He tried to install windows 98 back again on c drive--everything goes well right through the end of scandisk but after that, the whole system just hangs and he cant do anything about it. He tried it with various startup disks, and even other os(win 98se, winme) and it's still a no go. I appreciate any help you can offer me. Thank you.

 

[obenton]

First thing I'd do is check HD integrity with the mfg's utility. May be the drive's going bad, and that's why win98 bombed in the first place.

 

[Ultrasonic]

I don't think it's the drives problem...because it was a software(incompatibility?) problem that messed win98 up. The thing that I would like to know is how to get winnt4 server to start up again...thanks for the post though.

 

[AKA]

Did you ever create an emergency repair disk? Do you have access to another station with NT 4 on it? If not i can send you system disk to boot into NT 4.

If you have an emergency repair disk, then start install of NT 4 and choose repair. Or probably the easiest way is to tell me your partitioning scheme and I will send you a disk that will boot you into NT4.

To get an idea what Im talking about.. head here -->

----> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q101/6/68.asp?

 

[Ultrasonic]

Check your mail A.K.A. Thanks!

 

[Ender510]

Partition Magic is also a possible solution once u get Win98 back up.. it should be able to recognize the data as NTFS.. the rescue disk would be the easiest tho..