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win2k will not load

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s0ccergoof

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For some reason, win2k will not load on my machine. I have it set up to dual boot win2k and win98, but when I select win2k to boot it goes to the regular windows boot screen, the color screen with the little status box and the scrolling color bar and gets about halfway through the status bar and then I get a blue screen saying something like 'primary drive not found' or something like that. It is almost as if windows cannot find the ide bus or something. I know the harddrive is ok because win98 is on the same drive (same partition) and will boot fine. I tried starting in safe mode, booting last known good configuration, unplugging the PS then the ide cables and then putting them back, rewriting the boot sector, but none of these things work. I would really like to fix this instead of doing a clean install, because I have done that twice now trying to get this machine set up the way I want it, so if anyone can help I would appreciate it.
 
When you reinstall, put win9x and w2k in separate partitions. They don't coexist happily on the same partition.
 
Yeah I guess it would be easiest to just reinstall, especially with the new detonator 4 drivers coming out. Ok then I have a question, what is a good and easy and free program to do disk partitions with? I have 2 40-gig's and on the first I want to have 2 3-gig partitions for OS (win98 and win2k) and 2 15-gig partitions for the os's respective program files (all software and games) and leave the rest for linux (sometime in the future) the problem is right now I have it set up with 2 4-gig partitions and a 32 gig, and whatever partitioner that comes with win2k will not let me combine all of them and then break everything up again. I have heard of Partition Magic, but it is too big to download and not free, are there any other good programs out there that will let me move my partitions around?
 
Also how would you suggest setting this up? how about this: C->win98 D->win98 software, E->win2k F->win2k software G->other OS H->crdw I->dvd therefore both C and D drives would be FAT32, E and F would be NTFS, G would probably be FAT32. Is that a good way to set up the drive system?
 
not sure about setting it up... but i do know about partitioning. the only way to partition without losing all the data on your hard drive (all the data) is to buy a program called Partition Magic, which is about 80 bucks. If youre planning on reformatting your hard drives anyways, there is a nice little program called FDISK, that comes with every PC carrying almost any version of windows.
 
the data loss is not a problem, since I did a fresh reinstall last weekend and still haven't put everything back on and all the files are backed up. The thing about fdisk is that I can't get it to let me change my 4 gig partitions into smaller ones and then move the leftover space into another partition. I found a program called Ranish Partition Manager that I am going to try, I hope it works
 
C: win98 (installed first)
D: win2k
everything else basically doesn't matter
all that much, but always try to put your OS's
to the front of the drive and not on the same
partition.
Just use fdisk old but proven and also free.
 
I had this error once, if you use em, make sure you got the correct scsi/ata100 raid drivers installed?
Even if u dont use raid you need them if you are using the port.
 
hey manc,

ok, if the ata drivers somehow were uninstalled and that would be the reason that the OS is not finding the hard drive, how would I put the drivers back on when I can't do it from the OS? or did you fix this by reinstalling?
 
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