| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 17434 | 2002-04-04 22:44:00 | 98/ 2000 Restoring Dual Boot when boot sector dies. | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 41905 | 2002-04-04 22:44:00 | I have just reinstalled Win98 onto a once dual boot, dual HDD machine. C: was the primary (Win 98 - still is) and D: the Secondary (Win 2000 - everything is still there). I had to format C: courteosy of a boot sector corruption :-( and now, with win98 reinstalled cannot boot into Win2000 (which is 100% intact on the D drive). I have tried the 2000 Boot disk and trying to recover - but the requires that I have an emergency repair disk ... ooops don't have one! Is there some way of quickly getting my system dual booting again? Apparently there should be a 2000 install boot sector image stored on my D: drive but the MS Tech details for its recovery apply to machines already running NT/2000? And, in my semi-recovered state I am loathe to go down the reinstall 98 path again! Look forward to any suggestions ... |
Guest (0) | ||
| 41906 | 2002-04-05 08:26:00 | What's missing now James is the info that needs to be on the 98 C drive, as this is what is read when you boot up, and gives you the choice of booting into W2k or 98. I think you will have to reinstall W2k to get that info put back into 98. |
Guest (0) | ||
| 41907 | 2002-04-05 09:33:00 | Or...you could you used your Windows98 boot disk and just type in the following syntax: 'fdisk /mbr' to fix your boot sector. Alternatively even if you should copy all the details below and create a new file called Boot.ini Save it into C Drive. [Boot Loader] timeout=30 Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT [Operating Systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT='Microso ft Windows 2000 Professional' /fastdetect C:\='Microsoft Windows 98' C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT='Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console' /cmdcons If you also have the following files: 'Ntldr', 'Bootsect.dos''Ntdetect.com', or 'Ntbootdd.sys' then if 2000 is still intact as you say it is, then this method should work. If you have already attempted this; then yes its likely that another installation of Win2k is on the agenda. |
Guest (0) | ||
| 41908 | 2002-04-07 23:23:00 | Thanks for your suggestion. Shall try as you suggest but suspect (as the 2000 recovery system failed) that I need to reinstall. | Guest (0) | ||
| 1 | |||||