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help with dual boot loader

#1 User is offline   deathwish 

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Posted 11 April 2000 - 07:10 PM

i had win98 and win2k dual booting ok, the i installed WinME beta 2149 over
win98, still dual boot worked ok. whilst in winME beta i formatted the
drive that Win2Kpro was on, (that was real stupid) i restarted the computer
and the dual boot menu was still their so i booted into dos and tried to
re-install win2kpro but it won't let me, something about the windows boot
loader is incorrect or wrong.

firstly how do i get rid of the dual boot menu so that I only boot into
winME and nothing else, as if i only have 1 OS?

then how do i go about re-installing win2kpro?

i know about the files that win2kpro put's on the boot hard drive boot.ini,
ntldr, ntdetect etc.....

thanks

Dave
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Posted 09 May 2000 - 10:19 AM

fdisk c: fixes ur mbr and u can reinstall thru the autoplay feature on the win2k cd from win9x
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Posted 09 May 2000 - 10:36 AM

could also be fdisk /mbr, we have an argument on that one here..just be careful if ya enter fdisk =)
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Posted 09 May 2000 - 10:38 AM

Jezuz! i need to get my head checked
u ofcourse need to boot off a floppy to use this lil` trick
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Posted 15 May 2000 - 07:43 PM


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Posted 15 May 2000 - 08:12 PM

no u don't have to, just replace your backed up boot.ini file with the one on your harddrive now.

That is assuming u have backed it up?
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Posted 17 May 2000 - 09:00 PM


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