Hi, sorry for posting this question twice but I havn't gotten a response on how to fix my problem.

I used to be able to successfully dual boot between Windows 98se and Windows 2000pro. Now for some reason when the computer boots, it just automatically boots to 98 with asking me. My boot.ini file seems to look ok...

[Boot Loader]
timeout=5
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT

[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"

Far as I can tell, this looks normal. I am still unsure why I don't get the chance to pick which OS I want to load on bootup.

My system is an Athlon 700, Abit kA7 motherboard, and 128MB of PC133 RAM. I have two hard disks, 15GB 7200 Quantium and a Fujitsu 6.4 GB 5400. The Quantium drive is set to primary master with 3 partitions, all FAT32. c: drive is 4GB which succesfully boots Windows98, d: drive is 4GB and is the partition that will no longer boot Windows 2000. Please help.

Thanks,

Rob

Hello,
The same thing happen when I loaded the same two operating systems onto my friends computer. After I restarted twice the computer went to windows 98, without showing the dualboot screen. I even tried to reformated the win2000, which the computer would not allow me to do, because I was running two operating systems. The only fix that I could apply, was to reload the windows 2000, from the four bootdisk, this brought back the dualboot screen and allowed me to boot win2000. I am not sure if it kept all of his programs, because I had just formated his win98, and it did not have very many programs loaded. The only good news out of this , is that it is working great now. So try the four bootdisk, it work for me.

Rob
If you were smart and made a emergency repair disk for W2K (not the 4 startup disks), you can recover your dual boot without reloading W2K. Boot with your Emergency repair disk and chooserepair option,next choose emergency repair disk,
choose manual repair. Next Three check boxes will appear: inspect your startenvironment, verify your W2K files, and inspect your boot sector. Uncheck the box to verify your W2K files and then continue. W2K will use the emergency repair disk to repair your boot sector and add the dual boot entry into your startup boot sector.

Thanks guys, it works again now. I used the four boot disks and it fixed itself. Although I didn't have an Emergancy Repair Disk, it worked anyway. And without having to reaload Windows 2000!

Rob

One of the things I was impressed with is the recovery console mode. you can choose that after running setup and choosing recovery. OR if you run \i386\winnt32.exe on the setup cd and give it the command line parameter /cmdcons it gives you a multi boot option to run a command line recovery tool.

It has partition managing and boot sector recover tools as well as a lot of other stuff. (the commands that would have fixed the multi boot problems are fixboot, fixmbr from memory)

Hey,
No problem, sometimes the easy fix, is the best.

See the win2000 resource kit