I have a dual boot system with 5 partitions;
C = Win98SE, D = swapfile, E = data, F = Win2K, E = temporary storage of
ghost files.
I resized my partitions (using partition magic 5) and lost the ability to
boot to "C" (my win98 OS) but I can still boot to "F" (my W2K OS).
Wassuup with that?, Any Idea's?
Terry
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Re-sized partitions and lost "C"
#2
Posted 01 August 2002 - 06:05 PM
Where did the free space to resize come from?
Is your 98 partition still there? Is it still FAT?
Is your boot.ini pointing to the location of your MSDOS.SYS/IO.SYS/COMMAND.COM 98 files?
Is your 98 partition still there? Is it still FAT?
Is your boot.ini pointing to the location of your MSDOS.SYS/IO.SYS/COMMAND.COM 98 files?
#3
Posted 01 August 2002 - 06:40 PM
I made "C" 1 gig. smaller (I still have 1 gig free on "C"), and allocated that gig to "E" and "G".
"C" is still fat 32.
I don't know the answer to your third question.. this is a copy of my boot.ini file (the default has always been to boot to W2K):
[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /sos
C:\="Microsoft Windows"
MSDOS.SYS/IO.SYS/COMMAND.COM are all in c:\
"C" is still fat 32.
I don't know the answer to your third question.. this is a copy of my boot.ini file (the default has always been to boot to W2K):
[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /sos
C:\="Microsoft Windows"
MSDOS.SYS/IO.SYS/COMMAND.COM are all in c:\
#5
Posted 01 August 2002 - 06:54 PM
Screen message;
Invalid system disk (or something like that).
I have to wait 25minutes to reboot 'cause I just started downloading SP3.
I'll check in half an hour.
Invalid system disk (or something like that).
I have to wait 25minutes to reboot 'cause I just started downloading SP3.
I'll check in half an hour.
#6
Posted 01 August 2002 - 07:26 PM
OK, I checked.
The Screen message is;
"Invalid system disk
Replace the disk and press any key"
The Screen message is;
"Invalid system disk
Replace the disk and press any key"
#8
Posted 01 August 2002 - 11:33 PM
I don't know, It's dual boot.
Only after I choose which system to boot to do I get the error (if I choose the Win98 boot sector).
Only after I choose which system to boot to do I get the error (if I choose the Win98 boot sector).
#9
Posted 03 August 2002 - 06:26 PM
Alex;
Before you sent your reply I gave up on truing to shrink the C partition.
I resized the partition back to where it was when I started all this and restored C from a ghost boot image.
Everything's working fine now.
Thanks,
Terry
Before you sent your reply I gave up on truing to shrink the C partition.
I resized the partition back to where it was when I started all this and restored C from a ghost boot image.
Everything's working fine now.
Thanks,
Terry
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