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| Thread ID: 57982 | 2005-05-18 03:53:00 | Two HD's, two OS's | Fortunes_Child (8146) | Press F1 |
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| 356168 | 2005-05-18 03:53:00 | The search feature, though it brought up tons of subjects on multiple operating systems, didn't solve my problem. I had Windows XP Home installed previously on a computer. I recently plugged in a second hard drive and formatted it in FAT32 and installed Windows 98 SE. I did this so I could boot in 98 and play old classic games, that are impossible to run under XP, such as System Shock. The simple task of configuring my computer to choose which OS to boot up with goes completely over my head. I've heard of some fabled "choose operating system" screen on startup. Any ideas? |
Fortunes_Child (8146) | ||
| 356169 | 2005-05-18 06:55:00 | Welcome to pressf1 There was a question simular to yours a couple of weeks ago,here (www.pressf1.co.nz) What I used to do is change the boot order in BIOS when I had 98 and linux on seperate disks. I suspect that you disconnected the xp disk when you installed 98 on the secound disk, there fore the problem you have, (I think) is both OS's think they are installed on the primary disk. There is another way, a utility I often use, smb its a boot manager on a floppy disk again search the forum i gave a link to it quite a while ago |
beama (111) | ||
| 356170 | 2005-05-18 08:10:00 | boot.ini is what you're looking for. When I installed a second bootable hard drive in my computer I had to do a crash course in editing the boot.ini file. Right now I can't remember enough to be able to give you any reliable advice, but search in Google and you'll find plenty to get you started. Or look for Microsoft Support Article ID 289022 Before you start to mess with the boot.ini file copy it to a floppy disk, you may need it to get things back the way they were |
brig (1359) | ||
| 356171 | 2005-05-18 09:35:00 | Later OS's are ok to install in any order (although it's generally recommended to install oldest first), older OS's need to be installed first, and I think Win98 is in the older category, so that they get added to the boot configuration of the newer OS (win2k, XP), which then gives you the option to boot either OS at start up. As has been mentioned, you should be able to recover from this situation by editing boot.ini (you'll need to uncheck it's read only attributes in boot.ini > Properties, and then reset after editing in Notepad). What I'm not sure is, if Win98 has loaded anything in the MBR (Master Boot Record) which could be fouling things up. Have a look at this MS article (support.microsoft.com) in addition to brig's. You can even use the NT boot loader to start the Linux boot processes if you want. |
Murray P (44) | ||
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