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ok heres the situation...
Orignially i had Win98,which was on my C: drive. When i got got xp i put it on my E: drive, which i converted to ntfs. i have a d: drive which is for storage and is fat32. i was having some BSOD on the win98 partition, so i desided to reformat it...forgeting that the orginal boot.ini file was on it....now after reinstalling 98 on the C:, i cannot boot into the Xp partition(E:)! i was woundering if there was anyway of booting to the Xp partition..Maybe though some editing of my boot.ini, or a boot loader.
Thankx...im really lost..and i dont want ot have to reinstall xp
-drew
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Posted 20 December 2001 - 08:02 AM
why dont u try to rebuild ur boot.ini in the xp repair using the bootcfg /rebuild
dont know if it would work but u can give it a try:cool:
dont know if it would work but u can give it a try:cool:
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Posted 20 December 2001 - 08:55 AM
It sounds as if you are talking about seperate physical drives: Drive 0 = C & D and Drive 1 = E. If that is the case, I can probably help, as that is the same setup I have (at home). Let me know, and I will email the contents of boot.ini to you. You should then be able to copy that into your boot.ini and be good to go....
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Posted 27 December 2001 - 12:38 AM
LS..C and E are the same drive just different partitions of my 20gb hd. the d is a seperate HD.
If you dident understand, ill put it simple. i had win98 first then i got Xp on my e drive. but because i installed 98 first the boot.ini file was set on my C drive. When i formated my c drive i lost the boot.ini. I still have a perfect Xp set up on my E but i cant access it becasue im running 98 on fat32.
Im wondering if i can rebuild my boot.ini from 98 to detect Xp. So i can load it from start up
thankx
-drew
If you dident understand, ill put it simple. i had win98 first then i got Xp on my e drive. but because i installed 98 first the boot.ini file was set on my C drive. When i formated my c drive i lost the boot.ini. I still have a perfect Xp set up on my E but i cant access it becasue im running 98 on fat32.
Im wondering if i can rebuild my boot.ini from 98 to detect Xp. So i can load it from start up
thankx
-drew
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Posted 27 December 2001 - 05:43 AM
drew - try creating this boot.ini in the root of the C: drive. I have the same setup win98 on c: and winxp on d: -- if it doesn't work, you can alsways boot to a dos disk and delete the created file and re-boot.
boot.ini content follow here:
[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 XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:="Microsoft Windows"
boot.ini content follow here:
[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 XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:="Microsoft Windows"
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