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Messed up dual boot W98/W2k
Name: Alejandro Date: May 1, 2002 at 16:24:29 Pacific
Comment:
Hi, i hope someone can help me. I had win98se installed for a while on a C primary partition, then installed Win2k pro on an extended logical partition (D) and configured it to dual-boot. Everything worked fine, when the machine was started, appeared a boot menu giving me the choice between Win98 and 2000, and both Wins started ok. But since i was just testing w2k, i've deleted its folders from D partition hoping that doing fdisk /mbr would clean the w2k boot information and load Win98 directly. That didn't happened: when i try to boot, appears a message telling me that ntsokrnl.exe is missing. I just wanna get rid of w2k but keep w98. I've also run Bootmagic, it identifies the C partition as WinNT/2000. Is there any solution? Many Thanks!
Name: Sterling_Aug Date: May 1, 2002 at 17:35:45 Pacific
Reply:
You will need to edit the boot.ini file which is hidden from DOS and delete the Win2K line from the boot loader.
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Response Number 2
Name: Alejandro Date: May 2, 2002 at 07:53:02 Pacific
Reply:
I've fixed the problem. I was in a hurry and forgot to try doing sys c: (it was necesary to clear the Boot record, NOT the MBR) By the way, before this i've tried editing the boot.ini file and deleted that line, but notthing changed, so i deleted boot.ini. Just using the SYS command fixed the problem, my machine now starts Win98 with no dual boot menu. Thanks anyway.
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