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booting windows from 2nd partition
Name: monukaushal Date: January 24, 2006 at 09:16:50 Pacific OS: windows 98 CPU/Ram: 2.4/256
Comment:
i have a bad sector in my first partition. now i want to install win98 on second partition and boot my system from second (i.e. logical parition) How can i do that.
Name: max00 Date: January 24, 2006 at 09:21:13 Pacific
Reply:
Boot from a win98 startup floppy and run:
scandisk c: /surface
It might be able to reassign the bad sector.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dave357 Date: January 25, 2006 at 17:23:33 Pacific
Reply:
If I remember correctly (and I'm sure that someone will correct me if I'm wrong), you can install Win9x to a logical drive, but it will still boot from the C:\ (primary DOS) partition.
When installing Windows, it defaults to C:\Windows. Just change this to D:\Windows, and proceed as normal.
HTH
Dave
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Response Number 3
Name: Lupin3rd Date: February 7, 2006 at 05:06:20 Pacific
Reply:
You could also set partition 2 as the active partiion. If you do then all the main files needed (i.e Autoexec.bat,msdos.sys) will be put on the 2nd partiton. If you leave partition 1 active, they all go on their regardless of where windows is stored. Correct me if i'm wrong tho, as i've never used a bad sectored HD in years now. Do this with the format command on the Win98 bootdisk or through the cd version of the boot disk, and then chose active partiton option.
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