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i had winxp installed, and then installed win98... i've done this before and it worked fine. but this time for some reason it does not give me a boot option screen... i'm not sure what happened. i know winxp is still on there and it probably work fine. i just need to fix the boot.ini file. but i dont know how to do it.
can someone help me out here?
winxp = c:\windows
win98 = c:\win98
fat32 partition, disk 0.
i can supply to the boot.ini file if needed.
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damn it, boot.ini file screwed, win98 boots, cant get winxp
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Posted 14 February 2003 - 11:41 AM
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Posted 14 February 2003 - 01:50 PM
never mind, i managed to get the boot menu back starting a new winxp install, then took it out. works fine now...
admin: how come i cant delete my own thread? can that feature be enabled? otherwise, can you delete this thread... thx
admin: how come i cant delete my own thread? can that feature be enabled? otherwise, can you delete this thread... thx
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Posted 14 February 2003 - 05:40 PM
Win98 and WinXP on the same partition is an immensely bad, bad idea.
Also, you should always install 2000 or XP *last*. All Microsoft OS's will modify the boot sector of your hard disk. Since you installed Windows 98 last, Win98 wrote its boot sector down and killed WinXP's ability to multi-boot other OS's.
--Alexander
Also, you should always install 2000 or XP *last*. All Microsoft OS's will modify the boot sector of your hard disk. Since you installed Windows 98 last, Win98 wrote its boot sector down and killed WinXP's ability to multi-boot other OS's.
--Alexander
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