Win 2000 - Win98SE Duel Boot Question???

[RC159]

Im duel booting, 98se on c: Win2000 on D:, If I format C: to do away with 98se will PC still boot to Win2000 with no problems and then I can use C: for whatever? I have already set it to boot straight to w2k.

 

[Basie]

I think your bootloader (NTLDR) is on C:. I have tried that and screwed up. I had to format and reinstall. Try and relocate the bootloader Boot.ini and Bootsec.dos to D: Though Im still not perfectly clear on this.

 

[jeebus21]

the NTLDR, ntdetect.com, etc. files are contained at the root of the first OS installed, namely Windows 98. If you format that drive, you will not get into windows without an emergency repair disk (made in Win2k's backup program). There should be a fixmbr function in the recovery console for Win2k (to install, go to a CMD prompt and type: <CD Drive>:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons.

Also, (i guess there are multiple ways to do this) you can boot with the emergency repair disk and choose Manual Repair and tell it to inspect the boot sector AFTER you format the C: drive (where 98 was). The ERD can only write the system partition of the first hard drive, but it can repair the boot sector for the system partition on the startup disk (which is C).

Hope this helps.

Jeebus

 

[Basie]

Hi Jeebus
Thanks for that information. I was trying to install the recovery console from the run command and it wouldnt do it. Your way worked just fine
Basie