Hello !! I had been double-booting windows 98 and 2000 by deviding one HDD into two drives, as drive C for 98 and D for 2000. Really I used windows 98 only to set up windows 2000 and did not need it for other purposes. That is I did not have w2k bootable CD so first I did copy all w2k files on drive C, and then I set up w2k by newly creating drive D, formatting it into NTFS form, and installing w2k. By doing this, however, I had a lot of problems like PC stopped suddenly while using it. So I decided to have another HDD and separate w2k completely from windows 98. I did copy drive D from the old HDD to the new one, disconnected the old HDD as I did not need 98 any more, and swiched on my PC only ended up with boot failure. I tried to restore boot secter by using command "FIXBOOT" , but could not only with the message "there is no boot secter to fix". I can use w2k when I connect the new HDD with the old HDD that has windows 98 in it. Please give me any advice to start w2k independently without connecting to windows 98.

Is there still a copy of windows 2000 on the old HD? There is a really good article at http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,112479,00.asp on booting w2k or XP systems. If you have a copy of windoze 2000 on your old drive, just make the boot disc as described in the article, boot your second HD using the boot floppy you made and then edit /replace boot.ini, ntldr,and ntdetect as required Good Luck

"That is I did not have w2k bootable CD so first I did copy all w2k files on drive C, and then I set up w2k by newly creating drive D" ??? If you really have the cd just create a startup disk set. From the cd open the folder "BOOTDISK" and run "MAKEBOOT.EXE" and follow the prompts.