WinME and Win 2000 Dual Boot Problem

[benliong]

I successfully have WinME, Win 2000 and Linux Mandrak installed on one computer. I use Win 2000 90% of the time, and occasionally go to the other two for gaming / other things.

Now my WinME screwed up, requiring me to reinstall. I have to say I have a bad feeling about this, that once I reinstall WinME, it'll screw up my boot partition and I can only use winME but not win 2000.

my current configuration is as follows

c: --> boot partition
d: --> win 2000
e: --> win ME
another 2 partitions for Linux and Linux swap.

Can someone suggest what I should do?

Thanks in advance

--Ben.

 

[browndogsarebest]

I don't know if this helps, but I am running WinME & Win2k on a dual boot and my boot.ini file looks like this....
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition"

Any help to you???

 

[SUOrangeman]

To be safe, go into Win2K and make an emergency repair disk from the Backup accessory. You can restore the boot sector with this, should WinME fail the next step.

WinME **should** behave with the boot sector as it is. It should just add itself. To be safe, I just use "setup /ntldr" just in case. I don't ever remember losing an NT4/2K boot loader when using the /ntldr flag.

If WinME does fail my advice, boot with your Win2K CD and repair your install. There is an option to fix the boot sector and it will ask you for the emergency floppy you made.

-SUO