ok iwill try to explain my problem... I have an Dual boot win98 & winXP pro... first i instaled an win 98 on C: and then i instaled WIN XP on D: and everything worked just fine for cupple of months ...then i decided u upgrade my bios so i did it but when i restarted the machine and then it just says NTLDR is missing....so i did a little bit of net reading and tryed everything that i could understand : first i tryed to boot with bootdisk of win98 and then type an fdisk /MBR and it didnt work so i did more reading and ind something about inserting win XP CD and seleccting an REPAIR option and:im dooing copy paste thing Your best bet is to use the Recovery Console to setup/repair your mbr so that you >can boot into either operating system. > >You will need to boot up with your WinXP CD and follow these steps: > >Choose the 'Repair' an existing installation. >You will be asked to choose which windows installation you want to repair(the WinXP >Recovery Console will see both the Xp and 2000 installations) >Type in your Administrator password. > >Follow these steps: > >1) Type fixboot, answer (Y)es >2) CD \, press enter.(this takes you to the root drive) > >Type and enter thes commands on at a time: > >3) attrib -h ntldr >4) attrib -s ntldr >5) attrib -r ntldr >6) attrib -h ntdetect.com >7) attrib -S ntdetect.com >8) attrib -R ntdetect.com > >In steps 9 and 10, X is the letter of your CD-Rom drive. > >9) copy X:\I386\ntldr C:\ >10) copy X:\I386\ntldr.COM C:\ > >Answer yes each time the computer asks to overwrite the existing file. Type exit >to close >the repair console and reboot your computer. You should now be able to boot into >whichever >O\S you choose. > but it didnt work i belive coz it was an dual boot Win 2000 & Win XP solution.... i also read something about boot.ini file but cant find that file anywhere and my msdos istruction find is not working uffffffffffff dont know what to do.....i need the comp badly nowadays and im living in a regular small vilage in bosnia so anyone that i know cant help me also I dont wana be an crying sh..t but things now are not good so i beg you all people who have a time to explain whata..ck is hapening with my dual boot and is there anything to recover if cant be posible two than one o.s ...anything.... my mail is khanjasmina hotmail.com by the way sorry for my bad english and best regards to all of you jasenko

Make sure that the BIOS settings are configured to boot from drive A: . Put the Windows 98 Startup Disk in drive A: and start the computer. At the prompt (A:\>) enter the command sys C: . When a "System Transfered" prompt appears remove the disk from the A: drive and restart the computer.

i could do that but my win98 boot disk is old and in that time i didnt have an xp instaled ...if a transfer the system on C: win xp will be there or not ...also i tryed an repair console and then bootcfg scan but it only says D: win xp so i tryed to add the new one typing bootcfg rebuilt and then i typed win 98 se and then fastdetect so it actualy add a new boot but now when i type bootcfg /list it says 1 "win 98SE" OS Load options: /fastdetect OS Location d: windows 2 "Microsoft Windows XP professional" OS Load options: /fastdetect OS Location: d: windows now i know im wrong but am i on the right way ??? and if i make to change an location of win 98SE to be on C:windows instead of D:windows will it work ...????uffffff sorry for my english its 4 A,M and i did too much reading ...now im trying to edit my C:boot.ini file but dont know exactly what to edit so any sugestions help or anything....thanx again

HOW TO: Edit the Boot.ini File in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289022 I thought that WIN98 was installed on drive C: and XP on drive D: . Are they both on the same partition? Are the drives formated as NTFS or FAT32?

ok they where on diferent partitionsd but when i did bootcfg /rebuilt and then add i added an win 98se and it puts it on D: instead of C: dont know why it never ask me wich drive i will use for newly created win 98 se boot so now im trying to edit c:boot.ini file but dont know what exacly to change there so i will put it here [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="win 98SE" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect c:\="Microsoft Windows" ok that was an report of type boot.ini so what has to be changed there so the windows can see my real win 98 on c: instead of D:

both drives are FAT 32 and i finnaly lost my nerves and i did the flopy disk thing that you told me by transfering sys c: and it work for Win 98 but i dont have an boot screen any more ....so im interesting can i return my old XP somehow or i need to format it ? can i just reinstal it without loosing data on it ? thanx for helping me man

Specifying the Default Operating System for Startup If you have more than one operating system on your computer, you can set the operating system that you want to use as the default one for when you start your computer: Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click System. On the Advanced tab, under Startup and Recovery, click Settings. Under System startup, in the Default operating system list, click the operating system that you want to start when you turn on or restart your computer. Select the Display list of operating systems for check box, and then type the number of seconds for which you want the list displayed before the default operating system starts automatically. To manually edit the boot options file, click Edit. Microsoft strongly recommends that you do not modify the boot options file (Boot.ini), because doing so may render your computer unusable. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306559&Product=winxp