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Old August 14th, 2003, 01:25 PM
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Dual booting XP & 98 after XP reinstall

I'm running two partitions on my hard drive, with the first [C:]running XP and the second [D:] running 98SE for compatibility with a certain frame grabber card. The dual boot menu has always worked fine, but about a month ago I reformatted the first partition and reinstalled XP, but for some reason it didn't detect the 98 install this time and didn't give the boot menu. I tried to manually create the boot menu, but when I choose 98, the system just reboots. Can someone help me out with this?

For reference, here's what my boot.ini looks like at the moment...
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
D:\="Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition"

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The system boots by reading the boot sector or the active primary partition of the first drive (unless set to boot from some other device; floppy, scsi/raid, cdrom, etc). Even though you installed 98 to D, it still put itself in the boot record on C to tell the computer to look at D to boot up. That's how XP found it the first time. But, since you formatted the partition, that information is gone.

It seems like it should be a relatively easy task to drop that back in there, but I never found one. I have a nice install of DOS6.2/Win3.11 sitting in a directory for fun, but I could never make it boot.

Does win98 have a "system restore" kind of functionality built into it? Can you run something off the CD to "repair" the installation? You might try booting off a floppy with fdisk.exe and running fdisk /mbr, but that might just clear the boot record and neither would work, which wouldn't be good.

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This is what I discovered. If you are going to dual boot, the OS with the boot loader must be installed first. So, if you want to use the XP loader, you will have to reinstall Win98.

There may be other third part loaders that will do the trick, however. Though I do not know what they may be. I think Partition Magic may have something. I don't know.

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