win2k on D drive, formated C drive (which had win98)- what do I need to do to get ntdetect, etc back to run win2k?

[Sandor]

I have two partitions on my hard drive, C drive with win98 and D drive with win2k. Both OSs started to get really tempermental and stop working at about the same time- I thought my HD might be going (it's an IBM deskstar, and its already been replaced once). So I formated the C drive and tried to reinstall win98 to see if I had the same problems. To make a long story short, it seems that it was a stick of bad RAM that was causing the problems, but now I can't access win2k on the D drive (I have win98SE on the C drive again). Everything on the D drive is intact, but I lost ntdetect and those other files from the C drive.

Is there a way to get the dual boot screen back or some other way to load win2k? Thanks.

 

[Raven76]

boot from your Win2K CD and go through the repair routine. I haven't done it in a long time so I can't give step by step directions, but there should be something about checking the startup files/environment or something similiar. If you have an emergency repair floppy disk that will help the process as well (the repair utility on the CD will probably ask for it, but it can work without it sometimes).

Good luck.

 

[Athlon4all]

That won't work unfortunately. I was helping somebody with a similar issue and the Repair wasn't finding 2000. You need to put back the boot files in C:\. You may need to use bootpart, a utility you can get here. Here's what you need to do:

1. Start by copying Ntdetect.com, Ntldr. from the 2000's CD:\i386 directory, and recreate Boot.ini (if u need help with recreating Boot.ini PM me.). Put them all in C:\
2. Try running the Repair wizard like Raven76 suggested. Boot from the 2000 CD, then do what it says to repair the system. It should resetup the Boot loader and get everything working. If the Repair wizard still isn't working, then contine the steps.
3. Download Bootpart, and then Boot to MS-DOS mode
4. Run in the folder where Bootpart is, "Bootpart WINNT BOOT:C:"
5. Once you do that, you won't be able to boot 98. Only 2000, and as long as Boot.ini was made correctly. You should be able to boot 2000 now. To get 98 on the Boot loader, run the Repair Wizard.

Just PM me if u need more help.