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| Thread ID: 42141 | 2004-02-02 01:19:00 | Dual booting XP and 98se - bootloader problem. | PoWa (203) | Press F1 |
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| 212220 | 2004-02-02 01:19:00 | I installed windows 98 on another partition and got it going. Then when I tried to get back into XP there was nothing allowing me to do it. I tried a fixboot and fixmbr to allow me to use xp again but it didn't work. I even tried to do a repair on the existing XP partition but the option mysteriously didn't come up. I ended up installing a new copy of XP on a separate partition and fixed the bootloader for both XP partitions. So I can now boot into both XP partitions. Picture below. sal.neoburn.net Thing is now I can't boot into the Windows 98 partition. See the line in the boot.ini? I'm not too sure what to put in there to make it work. I've tried random arrangements of partition(5) ,1,0,3. There doesn't seem to be a logical way of how those partitions are numbered?? So what should I have in that win98 line to make it load? Or am I missing something else too? Thanks! :) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 212221 | 2004-02-02 01:31:00 | In the [operating systems] section of the Boot . ini file, you’ll find a somewhat cryptic line for each installed copy of Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT . This line uses Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) paths to specify the location of the boot partition . On a system that uses standard IDE drives, the ARC path in Boot . ini looks like this: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS The first parameter identifies the disk controller . In the multi() form, it should always be 0 . The disk parameter is not used in the multi() form and should always be 0 . The rdisk parameter in the multi() form specifies the ordinal number on the controller (starting with 0) of the disk that contains the boot partition . Thus, if multiple hard disks are installed, the first disk is 0, the second is 1, and so on . The partition parameter identifies the partition number of the boot partition . Partitions on a disk are numbered starting with 1 . The last part of the ARC path (usually \WINDOWS or \WINNT for Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT) identifies the path to the folder where that version of Windows is installed . So check the partition number and (in your case) the path to the Windows98 system folder (e . g . it may be Win98 or something) Cheers, Babe . |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 212222 | 2004-02-02 01:55:00 | It's most likely to be \WINDOWS. Yet another victim of the "Install the oldest firstest" syndrome.:D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 212223 | 2004-02-02 07:06:00 | Thanks Babe for the understanding on that. The path to the windows folder on the Win98 partition is \WINDOWS. Its also \WINDOWS for both the XP partitions strangely. If I look at the Win98 partition I would take a guess that the line should be: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98 SE" /fastdetect Is that right? I tried that but that doesn't work? Does it need the /fastdetect whatever that is? Also in the screenshot you can see the newestXP partition is the second partition on the disk, but the boot.ini says it is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Pro Newest" /fastdetect The fourth?? Strangely that works... Also the oldestXP partition is the 3rd partition on the disk but yet the boot.ini says it is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Pro Old Copy" /fastdetect The second partition? It kind of doesn't make any sense. Both XP partitions boot correctly with those lines of code. > Yet another victim of the "Install the oldest firstest" syndrome. lol, yes. But I had no choice in the matter hehe. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 212224 | 2004-02-02 08:59:00 | bump :) | PoWa (203) | ||
| 212225 | 2004-02-02 10:24:00 | I have Windows 98, ME and XP on the same drive. I have 3 Primary partitions and use "Boot Magic" to boot them. Boot Magic simply hides 2 of the partitions and makes one active. This way you have 3 "C" drives but only one at a time is visible. This way it doesn't matter what order you install the systems in. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 212226 | 2004-02-02 12:43:00 | That was not a good idea to install boot magic. :| It has now hidden all my partitions, not good, not good! Where are my backup files!? I tried uninstalling it, but then it said it couldn't find where it was installed, because it had hidden the partition it was installed on!! Crazy stuff. So I tried deleting the partition it was installed on to get rid of the damned thing... now when I boot up my blimin drives are still hidden. Where is my data gone??!! Oh my gosh, bad to worse... computers hate me, I hate them. I'm going to find a new job... |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 212227 | 2004-02-02 23:42:00 | Powa, from memory there should be a place to slot how many seconds the Choose OS display is shown at start up. I remember fiddling with this (amongst other thing in boot.ini) when I was dual booting 98 and 2k. I guess if this = 0 or false that the option will not be displayed. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 212228 | 2004-02-03 00:34:00 | support.microsoft.com | mark.p (383) | ||
| 212229 | 2004-02-03 00:42:00 | Couple of more links that may assist in understanding the boot.ini www.osr.com pressf1.pcworld.co.nz |
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