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Win2k booting prob after win98 reinstall

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Name: GravyGoose
Date: April 9, 2002 at 23:11:56 Pacific
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I have ( had!!) win98 and win2K on 2 different drive, when suddenly one day i started getting "ntldr is missing" error on bootup.

I re-installed my win98 and now win2K installation is hosed. Is there anyway to get back access to old win2K installation ?

PLEASE HELP !!!



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Name: Rene
Date: April 10, 2002 at 04:57:09 Pacific
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One question for you? When you reloaded Windows 98 on your system, what file format did you choose?


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Name: trvlr
Date: April 10, 2002 at 07:12:15 Pacific
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Run W2K set-up\repair via a CD boot.

When you re-installed '98 you overwrote/replaced the W2K mbr; also if by chance you reformatted C: then you would have lost W2K boot/start-up files as well.

If '98 was 'coughing up' the missing ntldr error message then obviously the re-install fixed that; if it was W2K then the W2K Repair routine will/should fix it.

Regardless, the fix to regain W2K access is as indicated above; tutorials - useful to have???

http://is-it-true.org/nt/nt2000/atips/atips71.shtml

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q293/4/01.ASP (refers to ME but applies equally after/to '9x)

http://www.rambuk.dk/info/using_the_recovery_console.htm


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